Having appeared on BlackPlastic.co.uk back in January with her tribute to change and evolution, Flowers Fell, Brooklyn musician Avery Friedman has just unveiled her debut album, New Thing.
Taken from New Thing, Biking Standing is a slow and contemplative piece that resonates with a sense of nostalgia and reflection. Inspired by her struggles with insomnia, Avery describes flashbacks and memories. Describing a bike ride, she sings, ‘I was biking, I was standing, riding up the hill,’ before going on to hint at a deeper connection, ‘July nighttime, they played country, I stood and danced with you’. Avery paints a soft, vulnerable picture of human connection, the potential of romance on the tips of her fingers, as she gently plays guitar.
The song was created in response to Friedman’s experience at a country music show, prompting her to write a song with a simple C to G chord progression. Whilst both the song and the lyrics have a quiet sense to them, Friedman still manages to land a sucker punch of a chorus, as she eases into the song’s gently heart-breaking hook, ‘Don’t you worry about me… I can sleep in my dreams’.
Check out Biking Standing below, and look for New Thing, out now via Audio Antihero.