This is an interesting collaboration and project!
Quarter-Life Crisis is the new project from Ryan Hemsworth.
Today is the release of the leading single called Postcard from Spain which features the vocals of Frances Quinlan.
It is taken from the self-titled EP that comes out on December 4, 2020 via Saddle Creek Records.
A nice bedroom dreamy pop tune that is far different from Ryan’s electro/hip-hop music.
About the track:
Of “Postcard from Spain,” Hemsworth said: “I had a plan going into the Quarter-Life Crisis project, but Frances really helped radicalize me, this collaboration was kind of the catalyst I unknowingly needed. Working on the arrangement together and with our engineer Ryan Schwabe was the best – I’ve worked with a lot of people but I felt a serious encouraging push from them. In the end we got this fun mix of live, electronic, soft and hard sounds (And a children’s choir on the chorus!). It feels like the basis of my whole project.”
“This was one of my first attempts at writing lyrics to a fully formed and recorded melody – it’s certainly one of the few times I’ve worked on something collaborating with an artist other than my bandmates in Hop Along,” said Frances Quinlan, front person of Hop Along, who released her debut solo album Likewise earlier this year. “I love the melodies Ryan Hemsworth composes, they’re both catchy and intriguing, calculated and dreamy. I was nervous about possibly throwing a wrench into it with my vocals, as I’m so used to writing lyrics along with the chords, but it ended up being a really freeing experience to focus solely on vocal melody, to play with where I could take what was already there, already strong on its own.”
Postcard from Spain gets:
/10.
