Gloomy emo pop troubadour Brightr is scheduled to release his new album, ‘Year Two’, this summer. Today, he has shared his second single from it, ‘Never Home, Never Mind’.
It sees Brightr, AKA Laurie Cottingham, show a more delicate and vulnerable side. With acoustic Midwestern emo flourishes, it allows Cottingham to deliver a raw and unfiltered track.
“The title comes from a line in the chorus, not something I often do, but it resonated, so I did it,” explains Cottingham before discussing the track’s lyrical theme. “It is a song about mistakes, about inflicting sadness on someone you love above everyone else, about messing up, but about trying every day to do better and make things feel better for that person.”
The album’s first single, ‘Charles Petrescu’, was released last month and was chosen as one of our ‘Songs of the Week’.
‘Year Two’ is set to be released through Sugar-Free Records, and sees Brightr follow up 2016’s ‘Year One’ record. When announcing the record, Cottingham said, “It’s painful, it’s poppy, deeply honest and brutally vulnerable. It’s joyfully crushing but it’s me.”
