Recently, Bay Area-based five-piece Midnight North released a new single, “Long View”, via Dutch Records. “Long View” features piano and violin contributions from longtime friend and collaborator Jason Crosby.
Co-written by guitarist Grahame Lesh and bassist Connor O’Sullivan, “Long View” is a lush folk ballad, highlighted by some tender vocal harmonies from Lesh and Elliott Peck.
Grahame Lesh shared his thoughts on the new track. He explained,
We had suspected that Nathan was a great songwriter ever since he’d joined the band. When he and I finally sat down to listen to some of the ideas that we’d both compiled, the first thing he showed me was the chorus to “Long View”. “Like building a ship in a bottle. Like rowing a boat on the open sea. I look past you looking at me. I take the long view.” The lyrics and melody struck me immediately, and as soon as I could I started working on building a song around it. It all came to me very quickly.
Connor O’Sullivan added,
We wanted to try something new with this recording. We’ve been lucky to have our own sound engineer, Andrew Erickson, on the road with us for a while now and we realized between us we had all the equipment to record ourselves. So we moved all our gear to a house right on the beach north of San Francisco. We did some experimental sessions first, then got Midnight North in there to record a few tunes which “Long View” came out of. The song starts and ends with a recording of the ocean waves right outside the door where we were working, it’s quite soothing.
Listen to Midnight North’s new “Long View” single below:
Midnight North ft. Jason Crosby – “Long View”
[Audio: Midnight North – Topic]
Tonight, Saturday, October 19th, Midnight North continues their 2019 fall tour with a performance at Truckee, CA’s Alibi Brewing. For a full list of the band’s upcoming tour dates, ticketing, and more information, head to Midnight North’s website.