Premiere: Zach Russell Shares New Single “Taking part in Home”

New Album The place The Flowers Meet The Dew Out December 1st through Thirty Tigers

Nov 28, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Pictures by Emma Delevante

Later this week, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter Zach Russell is ready to share his forthcoming debut album, The place The Flowers Meet The Dew. Previous to the report’s launch, Russell spent a decade in Nashville, working at odd jobs like shoe retailer supervisor, karaoke host, irrigation system installer, and tour merch supervisor for Tyler Childers, all whereas attempting to jot down his personal story as a singer and songwriter. Nonetheless, it took leaving town for his hometown in East Tennessee for the foundations of his debut album to really start to take form. In his new acquainted locale, Russell started to achieve for unfamiliar sounds, portray with a wider stylistic palette and incorporating formidable track constructions into his music.

Russell has already teased the report with a sequence of singles, “Born Once more,” “Milk & Honey,” and “Take Me Again To Tennessee,” and as we speak he’s again with the album’s closing single, “Taking part in Home,” premiering with Below the Radar.

“Taking part in Home” exhibits off Russell’s sprawling and emotive aspect, steeping his winding melodies in mid-tempo grooves, twangy guitar traces, and a plaintive chorus. The observe has an earnestness and heat to it that makes it undeniably catchy, however Russell’s lyrics let the observe actually shine as a piece of pastoral magnetism. “Taking part in Home” each affords a portrait of an idyllic household life and dissects its facade. Below Russell’s eye, life’s smallest moments come off as components in a play, roles we act out nearly unthinkingly. But, he additionally finds magnificence and peace in the identical grey acts of behavior. Because the track winds onward, he takes the time to rejoice his family members and finds methods to imbue life’s rote routines with that means. He confesses, “Man it seems like make imagine / After I watch you placed on Maybelline / I suppose it’s simply as actual as the rest / We pick issues we wish to learn / Settle in our personal routine / Little by little we determine this factor out / Generally it looks as if we’re simply enjoying home.”

Russell says of the observe, “I wrote ‘Taking part in Home’ whereas smoking a cigarette exterior my home in Nashville after returning dwelling from a protracted highway journey. I had been affected by a household I had visited and had been turning the scenario over in thoughts for almost all of the trip. Watching them go about their lives had given me some type of momentary tortured narrator’s view of life and love. I noticed them as kids utterly immersed in a shared fantasy. Prefer it wasn’t actual. It regarded like they have been Taking part in Home.

I didn’t like how this view made me really feel. It felt prefer it was trying to rob me of that means. So,I put myself within the heart of the story and began writing about it. The conclusion I got here to was that it’s simply Taking part in Home, then I’m enjoying, child. What else is there?”

Take a look at the track and video under. The place The Flowers Meet The Dew is out December 1st through Thirty Tigers.