A superbly intimate, breathtakingly uncooked indie people ballad of connection, longing, and love eternal, Jordan Lindley’s “Me & the Spiders” sends shivers down the backbone because the Nashville singer/songwriter spills the contents of his coronary heart.

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Buckle in for some candy, seductive heartache.

The magical, wondrous factor about love is that, whereas all of us (to an extent) know what it’s, every of us experiences it in a different way. That’s why there are such a lot of love songs already in existence, and why extra are being written and recorded day by day: It’s without delay common and deeply private. Solely you realize what your love means to you – that’s, till you set it in a music.

For Nashville’s Jordan Lindley, love is fragile, tender, and aching – and the music he wrote captures these qualities with natural ease and easy grace. A superbly intimate, breathtakingly uncooked indie people ballad of connection, longing, and love eternal, “Me & the Spiders” sends shivers down the backbone. Lindley spills the contents of his coronary heart, creating for listeners (and for himself) an aural testomony to that innermost expertise that strikes us in methods not like anything on this world.

If I ever lose you, I’d certainly lose my thoughts
In the identical method, I’d run out of candles
And let the flowers die
I’d dwell in a cupboard
Me and the spiders

These spiders, they’d have
nobody there to kill ‘em
It was you who did the soiled work,
essentially the most alluring villain
Nonetheless strolling barefoot,
you and your scissors

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Me & the Spiders,” Jordan Lindley’s fourth music of the 12 months and the most recent single taken off “Half One” of his upcoming album, Perhaps It’ll All Work Out – produced by himself, Jake Finch, and Collin Pastore (Lucy Dacus, Illuminati Hotties, and so on).

Following current tracks like “I Didn’t Even Miss You,” “Mud,” and “Lydia,” “Me & the Spiders” sees Lindley tactfully mixing delicate acoustic guitar patterns with mild, nuanced piano traces to kind a heat, seductive sonic mattress, upon which his innermost feelings glow. Love is ache and fervour on this music: For to like somebody is to inherently know what they convey to your life, and likewise to know what your life could be with out them: In Lindley’s case, an empty shell.

And thus, Lindley begins off singing, “If I ever lose you, I’d certainly lose my thoughts,” happening from there to discover how all of the dominos would possibly fall round him, ought to his love ever depart. Spoiler alert: It ain’t wanting good! In a really possible way, Lindley expresses how sacred and particular his love is to him, by explicitly exploring its loss. Typically occasions somebody’s absence might be felt simply as powerfully as their presence.

I’d in all probability use these scissors and minimize my hair
That factor you do whenever you really feel blue
or assured or scared
However nonetheless wind up fairly
I’d seem like canine shit

Our canine would in all probability by no means depart the door
Positive he’d kiss my legs and bark and beg
However he’d by no means once more be bored
At all times a mission
“The place did my mother go?”

“The music was written in in all probability 45 minutes, on a day that I used to be feeling embarrassingly enamored with the particular person I get to spend my life with,” Lindley tells Atwood Journal.

“I favored talking within the If-You-Give-A-Mouse-A-Cookie-style as a result of it provides the music a kind of storybook move – chronicling the mushy and ridiculous and heartbreaking and true ideas that undergo my thoughts once I consider shedding my companion. Name it The Pocket book meets Arrested Improvement.”

If I ever lose you, I’d certainly lose my thoughts
I’d return to high school for quantum instruments
Journey house and time
I’d shake your hand once more
Just a little tighter

My hand would haven’t any again to hint new shapes
I’d lay there chilly, blankets folded, and shake myself awake
Positive, I’d be respiration
However god I’d hate it

It’s no shock that Jordan Lindley’s love music would really feel so weak and uncooked, however what’s maybe extra putting about this particular music is simply how a lot it aches.

In concept, it is a celebration of affection – and at its conclusion, we’re actually left with a way of appreciation – however “Me & the Spiders” can be painful – and unapologetically so. For Lindley, love is heavy – there’s an unavoidable weight hooked up to it that he can’t presumably shake. And whereas there’ll certainly be future moments of celebration, exaltation, and cheer that extra intently resemble the “happier” love songs we’re extra accustomed to, “Me & the Spiders” is the nuanced, heart-on-sleeve, soul-stirring eruption that extra precisely displays the fragility, the tenderness, and the pure aching throughout the artist’s coronary heart.

Stream “Me & The Spiders” solely on Atwood Journal and buckle in for some candy, seductive heartache.

If I ever lose you, we’ll share a wrinkled smirk
It’ll be time to depart
However a minimum of it’ll be the each of us in grime
Collectively as ashes
You and me and the Spiders

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