Morgan Paros returns. Disgrace is an undeniably sturdy emotion. The sensation can take our thoughts to darkish locations, threatening to lure us to the purpose the place on some days, we don’t even acknowledge ourselves after we look within the mirror. However fortunately, love is stronger — some extent that Morgan Paros drives dwelling on her vibrant, explosive new monitor, ‘Twist The Knife.’

Morgan Paros – Twist The Knife

‘Twist The Knife’ is Paros’s sophomore single, following the sturdy success of her debut solo launch ‘Final Straw’ earlier this 12 months. However ‘Twist The Knife’ is a narrative that Paros has wished to inform for a very long time, one which first started with an unforgettable acoustic guitar riff whereas she was going by means of a divorce again in 2017.

Nevertheless, it wasn’t till 2021, fueled by a scarcity of sleep on a flight dwelling from tour (Paros has spent many of the final decade as a touring multi-instrumentalist and recording artist) that the remainder of the monitor got here to her. She got here up with the lyrics and melody proper there on the flight, and upon deplaning, made a voice memo of the tune in a rest room at LAX. 

“I couldn’t have written this tune any earlier, and it wasn’t for lack of attempting,” Paros says of the monitor. “This tune is about radical honesty. The tip of the road, hardest decisions we should make, about leaping with out understanding the place you’ll land.” 

‘Twist The Knife’ fantastically demonstrates the braveness of vulnerability, talking to the facility that may be present in setting your self free. Paros’s uncooked vocal talents, on full show on the tune’s energetic hook, are largely paying homage to Florence Welch. And with manufacturing, mixing, and mastering from the Grammy award-winning workforce behind Harry Types’s Harry’s Home (Jeremy Hatcher, Matt Wolach, and Randy Merrill), this tune is as sonically compelling as it’s lyrically.

Paros says that in her wildest desires, ‘Twist The Knife’ “lives on a headline pageant stage at Glastonbury because the solar units.” If her 2023 is any indication of what’s to come back, we don’t suppose it’ll be lengthy earlier than she will get there. 

‘Twist the Knife’ fantastically demonstrates the braveness of vulnerability, talking to the facility that may be present in setting your self free. Paros’s uncooked vocal talents, on full show on the tune’s energetic hook, are largely paying homage to Florence Welch.

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