SHY Martin Shares Emotive New Single ‘Slow’
This gorgeous song follows November's mid-tempo ballad Make Us Never Happen, and brings her songwriting skills to the forefront. Her outstanding honeyed vocals are one of the reasons that I love everything she does, but it's her relatable and delicate storytelling that really made me a fan of her music and Slow is the perfect example of how gifted a songwriter she is. I am loving the introspective atmosphere of this song and how easily one can connect with the message of taking things slow so one doesn't end with a broken heart again.
This beautiful message is backed by a guitar-driven melody that creates a warm and intimate atmosphere for her gorgeous vocals to soar and effortlessly convey the emotion of her lyrics. SHY Martin is one of the artists I am most excited to hear in 2020 and she starts the year with a stunning song that I think you guys will like. To accompany the release, SHY Martin shared a behind-the-scenes style of a lyric video that you can check out below!
Speaking about the song, SHY Martin said,
When I started writing songs I never did it without my guitar. I spent hours and hours writing on my bed with it, and if not there it was on a little pier by a lake next to our house. A few years ago when I moved to Stockholm I stopped writing songs that way. This past summer me, my brother and two of my closest friends and co-writers Nirob and Litens went to spend a weekend at my parents’ place in the countryside where I grew up. We ended up bringing the guitar everywhere we went. It was the first time in years I’d even held the guitar, but I guess going back to where it all started made me feel like nothing had really changed. 'Slow' was written during those days in the countryside. I picked up the guitar while we were eating breakfast one morning and started playing some chords. We were talking about how scary it can be jumping into a relationship immediately after a break up. I really felt like I wanted to keep the feeling we had when we wrote it by keeping the production simple, organic.