String co-arrangement and performance by Harley Eblen

Wait
On the wire
On the bar

Stay
Water for the lone
Coffee cups

Fall down my mind
Hope down bye-bye
Chase that damn night away

Cold hands hold mine
Wait you'll go on
Paved your daylight away

It wasn't yet the same
Fire comes
Fire goes

Wasn't yet the cold
Fire burns
Firestorms

When it was

Firestorms

Moving On

Vertigo

When you've been through hell and back... but, you've had your person there with you the whole time. That's what this one's all about.
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PRESS RELEASE:
Dellwood returns with his sixth single, Lovelights, a slow-burning summer folk meditation that blends his signature intimate fingerpicking, layered harmonies, and spacious vocals. 
The song lives in that tender space between bittersweet reflection and quiet hope — a "peaceful wrestling" with the emotions of life. Set against the backdrop of a warm summer evening, Lovelights captures the feeling of sitting with close friends under fading twilight, digging into the hard questions of life and love, while still finding comfort and calm in the togetherness.

The arrangement carries Dellwood’s unmistakable blend of warmth and atmosphere: detailed fingerpicked acoustic guitars float beneath soft vocal layers, while subtle ambient textures suggest the distant sounds of a city winding down for the night. Lovelights embodies that rare stillness where life slows down just enough to breathe, feel, and ultimately, choose peace — even when things hurt.


• Lyrics:

Last night was a long night
When you said, “It’d be alright"

The blades stuck to my window
The frost was yet another signal
We had it coming

The shivering, the watercress
Drifting deep in my chest
We had it coming

Last night was a long night
When you said, “It’d be alright"
Last night was a long night
But we faced that tide
Made up our minds

Oh, we looked inside, knew it’d be alright
In our lovelights, in our lovelights 
Oh, in our lovelights, in our lovelights

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Lovelights

Never Come Down

Hey, old friend
Remember the storm?
And maybe I'm a fool

Burn my youth
On Monday, or in the winter
Amazing mound of mine

Cause all I have is all I know
Something close to nothing
Cause all I have is all gone

Wait
Was it the wrong fire?
Or the fable?
Man of mine
Amazing time

Cause all I had is all I want
Something close to nothing
Cause all I have is all gone
Something close enough

Mix+Master by Gus Van Sound

Man of Mine

The Weight Of Our Dreaming

Funeral

Music Video: https://youtu.be/7drVeag0eak?si=wCvYeLXp27caInBi
Stream: https://www.submithub.com/link/dellwood-the-animals

With The Animals, Dellwood steps further into darker, more mysterious territory — a brooding folk song that feels both intimate and otherworldly.

Built around a simple acoustic guitar progression, the track is carried by haunting vocal layers in a lower range than most Dellwood recordings to date. The lyrics unfold like fragments of memory and dream — “Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground” — evoking both disorientation and belonging. It’s a meditation on longing and self-searching, on being caught in a mental maze but trusting the wrestle will find purpose.

“The Animals felt like a personal paradox,” says Chris Bartels. “I wanted to capture the feeling of being lost in doubt while still grounded in something familiar. It’s vulnerable and cryptic, but also strangely hopeful.”

The production leans into both nostalgia and experimentation. Folk roots are present in the acoustic core, while experimental textures emerge from recording layers in different keys, then pitching them back — creating ghostly shadows beneath the song’s surface. The result is a track that feels familiar and human, yet unsettlingly spectral.

The Animals expands Dellwood’s evolving palette: cinematic folk at its core, but open to the edge of the unknown — a voice both comforting and haunting, finding beauty in the wrestle between fragility and purpose.

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Press Highlights for Dellwood (Year One):

• “Soul-stirring indie-folk… raw and intimate strums wonderfully juxtaposed with cinematically produced vocal layering.” – Up To Hear Music

• “Delicate harmonies radiate raw emotion and soul… a hauntingly personal atmosphere.” – Caesar Live N Loud

• “Explores the weight of family through a haunting narrative… lyrics ache with unspoken words.” – Purple Melon

• “An intimate slice of folk… emotional power and sincerity reminiscent of early Bon Iver.” – We All Want Someone To Shout For

• “A warm, atmospheric soundscape… tackling life’s challenges and finding solace in shared vulnerability.” – Purple Melon

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LYRICS

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

Whispers knit, your cryptic verse
The night we broke, with starry guise
Tempered dust, I’ve been sculpted out
I washed it clear, with blood-red eyes

I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals
I feel like the animals

It’s brighter now, but only from the snow
The coffee, strong, forgotten on the table
Now back to dirt, the woodlands’ pull 
I’ve tasted all, the timeless fate, betrayal 

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground
I feel like the animals
Sinking down, in Wisconsin ground

Firestorms

Georgi Krastev

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