Welcome to the Mason Communications “Song of the Week!”

Song Title: Reckless

Artist: Emorie

Photo credit: Electro-pop band Emorie. Adm Shedden and Hunter Eves. - Courtesy of Sonic Unyon Records

We’ll kick off our “Song of the Week” with an Indie-Pop number from Canadian artists Emorie – a duo from Hamilton, Ontario (Canada). And yes, it sounds a LOT like Alanis Morisette. Lyrics and publishing information are below, plus a link to hear more from the artist of you like them! (please note: we purchased the music rights to use this in our promotional campaigns – specifically for you to listen to right here. We do not have the rights to give away a copy or sell the song, and you may not use this song for advertising purposes yourself without purchasing a license. Please respect the copyrights of the respective holders. Thanks!)

LYRICS (Copyright)

It's just enough
to be wild for the evening
we fall apart
to start believing

I know this feeling
drips down my body in the sun
this is the real thing
and I am overcome

our heads are reeling
my heart beating like the band
lift off the ceiling
as I open up my hands

woah
oh this is chemical
lost in a gold rush
this is the promise of
reckless and rootless love

we build it up
with songs of the broken
caught in the rough
between us and a moment

I know this fire
reaches the corners of my truth
oh I am lighter
when I’m reflecting you

tonight I’m all in
I trade my past for something new
I let it reach in
to see what this can do

It's moving moving moving
we're moving moving moving
moving moving moving
moving moving moving
x4

we’re gonna make it gonna make it gonna make it I know it's right
gonna make it gonna make it gonna make it make it this time
x4

I know this feeling
drips down my body in the sun
this is the real thing
and I am overcome

I know this feeling
drips down my body in the sun
this is the real thing
and I am overcome

our heads are reeling
my heart beating like the band
lift off the ceiling
as I open up my hands

woah
oh this is chemical
grace like a gold rush
this is the promise of
reckless and rootless love

Written By

Jessie Marie Villa, Stephen Keech

Performed By

Emorie, Fantoms

Produced By

Emorie, Fantoms

Listen to more Emorie:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5shOTBrUBOTGfGxQZRNZeL?autoplay=true&v=A

Background:

Hunter Eves was playing a solo gig at Hamilton’s Casbah along with a Hamilton group called Blind Mule. The line up was a strange mix. Hunter Eves was playing electronic dance music at the time. Blind Mule is alt-country.

The guy playing fiddle with Blind Mule caught Eves’ eye. His name was Adm Shedden. He sort of stuck out from the rest of the band.

“He had purple hair, tattoos and piercings everywhere and here he was playing fiddle in a blue grass band,” Eves says. “We started talking and I found out he was into electronic music. (British electronic pop duo) Frou Frou was his favourite band. It was also mine. He mentioned he had an electric violin, so I said, ‘Why don’t we jam?’”

That meeting four years ago was the start of a close musical collaboration that has developed into the electronic pop duo Emorie. On Friday, Eves and Shedden will introduce Emorie’s debut album at The Baltimore House on King William Street.

Shedden and Eves are both Hamilton-area natives — Shedden from Dundas and Eves from Stoney Creek — so it was only natural that they chose to record the album here, at the studio of producer Ollie Barkovic. It also made sense to look to Hamilton label Sonic Unyon Records for help with distribution.

What doesn’t necessarily make sense is Shedden and Eves’ recent move to Toronto.

“It’s kind of ironic since we moved to Toronto for a change of scenery and ended up driving back to Hamilton to record,” laughs Eves, who has lived in Toronto for the past four years.

Both the title track, Never Goes Away, and the name of the band were inspired by Eves’s grandfather Ernie Matton, co-founder of the Grimbsy Festival of Art.

“My grandpa was my idol, the person who got me into music,” Eves says. “He got cancer and died a few years ago. My grandpa was actually the first person to record me singing. I think I was 11 when I decided I wanted to be a singer.

“It was sad for me. (The title track) Never Goes Away is a song for him. I took his initials and basically wrapped it around the word amor, Emorie.” 

 Source: https://www.therecord.com/whatson-story/2550391-adm-and-eves-make-emorie/