Felix Hill is here with 'Safe and Sound'
Storybook pictures of passing youth emerge as electrifying new Gen-Z voice, Felix Hill recalls painful goodbyes on latest single…
SAFE AND SOUND
Sweeping audiences off their feet through a gentle ascent from keen teen self-starter to become the hotly-tipped bookish showman of his early-twenties, Felix Hill returns from recording and a run of London shows with intimate new track.
Felix Hill – Safe and Sound
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Everybody’s Records
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It can be the case that a good story can be better than the truth, yet for the shooting star that is 20-year-old crowd-thrilling singer-songwriter, Felix Hill, his latest single puts down the pen of fiction and gets real to replay vivid memories of waving off one that got away. Exchanging escapism to rewind to the dying moments of a young relationship, Safe and Sound tenderly speaks to the faint light of memory in anyone who can remember watching their first love turn away for the very last time.
Whipped up by word-of-mouth, digitised chatter and the more traditional indie-star path of turning up to play in as many back rooms and intimate venues as time has allowed, Hill’s confident beginnings of the not-too-distant past laid the foundations for the expanding recognition he is experiencing in the present. Gig after gig, more confident self-release after more confident self-release and rumour on top of rumour, the growing chapters of Hill’s songbook, of daydreams and half-remembered memories, have found listeners eager to find out more.
Safe and Sound lands as the first in a run of promised 2023 releases on Everybody’s Records, showing the spoils of Hill’s first recording sessions at London’s Eastcote Studios in the company of producer, George Murphy (Yungblud, Bleach Lab, Hotel Lux). Hill played all instruments on the sessions aside from the drums, handing over the sticks and the stool to Dan McDougall, a renowned player in the studio with acts such as Sam Ryder and Baby Queen, whilst also touring the world with Liam Gallagher.
Typically working with fictional lyrical themes that frequently, if not always intentionally, pool to become skyscraping, aspirational choruses ready for the biggest stages yet to come, Hill’s first cut of the year gently opens a door into his new world at a completely different tempo.
Hill says of the song: “‘It’s about a specific moment. The one where someone realises they’ve seen their partner for the last time. It’s not been said out loud, but both of you know that this goodbye is the one that’s forever.”
Backed by a regular live band, Hill’s dedication to and passion for his handpicked stage commitments has found him taking strides from his current base in Liverpool and cutting his teeth on a nationwide footprint. Recent shows in London have drawn new audiences into The Windmill in Brixton and the East End’s The Old Blue Last, creating swirling, heady atmospheres of post-teen release on all occasions.
Returning time and again to the Manchester stages where he was first discovered, making short trips from his hometown of Bolton on the city’s fringes, they are native audiences that remain the most febrile in response to his emotive and ambitious songwriting.
More new music and live date announcements are on their way from Felix Hill over the course of the summer. To be the first to be informed, connect with him online at:
https://www.instagram.com/felixhill
https://twitter.com/felixhillmusic
https://www.facebook.com/FelixHillMusician
https://www.tiktok.com/@felixhillmusic
