Audien turns in ID from Progressive Home By no means Died tour, ‘Drifting Away’ with Joe Jury – Dancing Astronaut
by: Zach Salafia
Sep 15, 2022
Audien is pushing ahead on his mission to reaffirm that progressive home by no means died together with his newest authentic, “Drifting Away” with Joe Jury. The observe had been a staple on his Progressive Home By no means Died tour that lately wrapped up and included a sold-out cease on the Hollywood Palladium, which marked Audien’s greatest headlining present to date and one he calls his “favourite present thus far.”
Those that have been lucky sufficient to catch Audien at any of his 12 Progressive Home By no means Died tour dates rapidly discovered that “Drifting Away” works simply as effectively within the membership because it does listening to it from residence. And as Audien put it himself, he defined that “[he’s] blissful to place it out proper on the finish of the tour after testing it out throughout these reveals. The response was at all times so good.”
The Armada-backed launch sounds and appears like classic Audien, and that’s by design. In an unique sitdown with Dancing Astronaut, Audien acknowledged that “all through the tour, [he] was taking part in lots of my outdated stuff that type of made [him] need to make one thing new in that model. ‘Want It Was You‘ [Audien’s final 2021 single] was actually, very well acquired, particularly whereas on tour. I type of took be aware of that and I took these vibes and blended it with a few of my older stuff like ‘Circles‘ and simply made a type of a mixture of the 2.” And as to the inspiration behind “Drifting Away,” Audien completely summed it up in a single sentence by saying that he “wished to make a giant, progressive banger.”
The topline—delivered by Joe Jury—flawlessly matches the power and the nostalgic really feel surrounding “Drifting Away,” which “had a distinct high line on it when [he] began [and] though it sounded actually good, this different one ‘Drifting Away’ was good for it.” He says he discovered Jury “by means of Armada truly. [He’d] by no means spoken to or met Joe and that’s only a signal of the occasions.”
Audien’s stumbling upon Joe Jury as the proper match for his newest single is just not solely an indication of the occasions, however doubtless extra frequent than folks assume, with him explaining that “[he] used to assume it wanted to be some loopy story. Like, oh, we met in a well-known studio proper after climbing Mount Everest. It’s like, no, it doesn’t should be like that. [He] completed an instrumental that [He] beloved on the tour and [Jury] sang a high line on it and it was superior.” He even goes as far as to name working with Jury “a blessing” earlier than including that he “didn’t should do a lot once I bought the highest line. It was already achieved. [Jury] wrote it and sang it and no matter he did to the vocals was actually good. It was a layup.”
Whereas “Drifting Away” may be extra akin to a Kobe-to-Shaq alley-oop than a layup, discover out why by streaming Audien’s subsequent progressive home basic with Joe Jury under.
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Classes: Music