Best Friend
Best Friend makes music that attempts to encapsulate the BFF bond through the medium of audio arrangements. Based out of Nashville, Peter Fox McCarville’s Gezellig Records album Can You Believe It? is the culmination from various tracks being released in recent years that tackle matters of personality loss, depersonalization & all the various elements that echo the collective sighs of the inspired areas of suburban ennui. Peter found a cathartic connection for his own struggles through the narratives of Meriwether Lewis’s own battles while trekking with William Clark along the Oregon trail.
Presenting the world premiere of “Sure”; Best Friends unveils through beguiling & mind mystifying sounds the stretches that lie between sureness & the ground crumbling anxiety-abyss of uncertainty. Peter projects all of the various inklings of incomplete & unsettled feelings into lo-fi expressions that sparkle according to their own charm on hang on the rhythmic guidance of the jumping & jagged guitars. The self-assured concrete artifices of statue-esque confidence are cracked here by dream-machine sledge hammers that hit with the brute force of downy pillows being used in idle & playful assailments. The Nashville artist takes the local southern bedroom pop mode that nods to the like-minded creative hearts & spirits that dwell on the western coast that lounge, love, cry, mope & celebrate beneath the sun & clouds with their feet planted in the sands of the Pacific shores.
Carville said this of the new single:
“Sure” was recorded in my parents’ bonus room in the suburbs of Nashville as part of an album I would later call Can You Believe It?. As I worked through recording the album I realized there was a song from a past Best Friend release that would perfectly tie together the record’s core themes of personality loss and a great existential humbling. “Sure” picked up on those traits from the other songs and gave a melody that would equally work to describe the way I was feeling as I wrote the album. The breathlessness given by the beat of the song climaxes with its core anxiety, which is my inability to understand everything around me, but with the assertion that I will try.
Listen to more from Best Friend via Soundcloud.
