At the dawn of this holiday season they released their grave interpretation of 'White Christmas' and following the melancholic traces of that piece, they are back with 'NYE' - a New Years song about the complexity of ending a close relationship, released on Christmas day.
Talking about the meaning of the lyrics, Leo Lönnroth of Maple & Rye says: ”This song was written in about forty seconds on New Year's Eve last year, when me and my (at that time) girlfriend thought about taking a break / breaking up / spending some time apart. I wrote it while she was in the shower and we were going away for a New Year's dinner, in the first recording you can hear her singning and whistling in the background. Earlier that day we had talked about how much easier everything would be if we hated each other. Or at least strongly disliked each other. It felt like it was difficult to start a new chapter without having a 'clean break'. So then I wrote this song. The song seemed to represent an alternative and a little easier end to the story. If anything ever could be that simple?”
The indie folk quartet Maple & Rye released their hotly-anticipated and for many years frequently requested debut album 'For Everything', this summer via Icons Creating Evil Art. An album sprung from stories that need to be told, books that should be read, love relationships that need to be broken, grief over total loneliness, death, places the band's members never visited and people they love. A long process of adversity and obstacles but at the same time a journey filled with joy and love.
The band has always had a vision of keeping the music and the experience authentic, both for themselves and for their fans. Vocal harmonies and powerful melodies are blended with bombastic drums, danceable rhythms and grand choruses, in parallel with a brittleness and inwardness that contrasts with the joy and dance. It is music that changes from playfulness to intimacy and emotion.
Maple & Rye derives their musical inspiration from a wide range of influences from blues and funk to rock and folk-pop, although the most important inspiration comes from the members' own emotional lives. The band is based in Gothenburg and consists of Leo Lönnroth, Gustav Rybo-Molin, Milton Lönnroth and Henrik Bielsten. The artistic core is largely due to the fact that all the members of the group are composers, lyricists and vocalists - the band's two strong lead singers are backed in by the other members and focus is placed on careful and sensitive storytelling.
'NYE' by Maple & Rye is released December 25 via Icons Creating Evil Art.
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