New York-via-Nashville artist Slark Moan has released a new single, ‘Nervous Breakdown’, which will appear on their upcoming EP The Return of Guitar Music. Produced with Gordon Rapheal and featuring additional harmonies from Torres‘ Mackenzie Scott, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Evan Murray. Check it out below.
“’Nervous Breakdown’ is about feeling like you could come apart at any moment, but you struggle to keep your head above the noise, whispering to anyone who needs to hear it, I want to tell you it’ll be okay,” Slark Moan explained in a statement. “When I wrote the song, I was having a hard time trusting myself, and experiencing anxiety around choices I had made and uncertainty about where I needed to go. I felt like I was always playing catch up to where I needed to be, like I had just arrived at a party just as everyone else was mapping the train ride home.”
They continued: “The song comes from a place of anxiety and defeatism but there is a redeeming message- not necessarily optimistic, because that can be toxic in its own way, but uplifting and hopefully encouraging. That’s what I want listeners to take away from the music- to feel seen, validated, and that it’s okay that you’re feeling this way. I am too.”
The Return of Guitar Music is out October 25.
