Living Room Sessions: Descent
9 MAR 2020
The fifth in a back-catalogue series exploring past May Project tracks, presented as a lo-fi ‘living room’ video and accompanying blog post and playlist.
LIVING ROOM SESSION #5.
Track: Descent
Year of release: May 2018 as part of the album ‘Elpis’. Descent is a song that was one of those lovely collaborations that just work: Sean Harvey, The May Project’s guitarist, emailed me a beautiful guitar riff, and the melody that sprang to mind was pretty immediate. I added some piano and some eerie synths (in the final version), and ‘Descent’ as it is came into being!
I think, ultimately, it’s a song about being in a particularly dark place - feeling a kind of numbness and detachment, but at the same time seeing little glimmers of light and hope, and knowing that it’s possible to move forward and out of those heavier spaces, but struggling to do so. Its ending is intentionally unresolved.
Listen to the original track here. Lyrics below video.
Listen to The May Project on Spotify here.
Katie Brown
Founder and Editor of The May Magazine.