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Nixon Boyd – “How I Know I’m Home”

stereogum.com·Danielle Chelosky·about 1 month ago
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Since 2007, Nixon Boyd has been playing guitar in the Canadian indie rock band Hollerado. Last month, he announced his debut solo album Every Time We Turn A Corner and shared " Trouble Of Your Own ." Now, he's back with "How I Know I'm Home." "How I Know I'm Home" is melancholy, acoustic beauty in the vein of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake. About the song, Boyd says: A few years ago my friend Luke Doucet showed me open D tuning, and this is the first thing I wrote in that tuning that I liked. I structured it to have this long winded melody so that there’s space for a detailed and kind of rambling monologue leading into the “that’s how I know I’m home” lyric in the chorus. I think it gives the effect of blurting out words and saying way too much the way I sometimes find myself doing when I’m trying to express something really earnest and heartfelt. Arrangement-wise, this is pretty sparse but it’s also the only song on the record with a synthesizer in it.…

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