
You have to step away from it a bit for it to come into focus … That’s my mind right now. I think I’m still too close to my thoughts as well, like looking at something so close-up that it’s blurry. “Lyrically I’ve had a lot of things on my mind, but nothing that has stood out enough to write down in a song yet, it’s still all scattered in my head. “I’ve been in the infancy stages of writing new material during the pandemic, but mainly just instrumentally,” he said. It’s not that he hasn’t tried to write new music, it’s just that things haven’t come easy.

“Mostly 2020 hasn’t been very inspiring, so I’ve been trying to make sense out of things that don’t make sense and finding joy where I can.”

“I would love to claim I’ve been using most of this time to be productive and work on music nonstop, but that hasn’t been the case,” Warwick said. He spent much of 2019 touring with guitarist Nicole Atkins, and was gearing up for a more extensive international tour when the novel coronavirus reared its ugly head.Įverything that came after has zapped Warwick’s drive to write new music in 2020, he told Queen City Nerve. Warwick, best known as the frontman for psych rock band Ancient Cities, hasn’t released new solo music since his 2010 album Talking Machine.

“I Got Time” will be featured on an episode of Showtime’s hit show Shameless on Dec. In “Monsters,” evoking ZZ Top’s Texas blues shuffle, things get a bit darker as Warwick confronts the fact that he has more to kill than time. Accidental or not, the opening riffs of the song are an unmistakable call back to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising,” a fitting foreshadowing for the themes behind Warwick’s second single. In “I Got Time,” a rock ‘n’ roll tune reminiscent of ’60s era Rolling Stones, Warwick revels in his newfound leisure time. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. We’ve got a sneak peek at two new singles he’s posted to Bandcamp in the lead-up to that release.ĭespite the fact that they were recorded before COVID-19 clamped down on North Carolina, both songs are decidedly relevant at a time when sickness and quarantines have given many folks nothing but time to sit with their inner demons. Luckily for us, he’s been sitting on a back catalog of previously recorded music that he will release on Dec. Like many of us, local musician Stephen Warwick has found himself unable to create much during the pandemic, lacking motivation and inspiration while laying low at home.

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