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'Closure' released 26th March 2020 on Fortress Sounds via AWAL.
STREAM / DOWNLOAD: https://smarturl.it/McClosure

Written by Natalie McCool & Kenzo Zurzolo
Performed by Natalie McCool
Recorded & produced by Kenzo Zurzolo at Paname, Paris, France.
Additional mix & production by Future Humans at Studio 13, London, UK
Mastered by Chris Daniels at Organised Rhyme, Brighton, UK 

"Bouncy, off kilter synths paired with driving drums & guitars to create a record that's playful yet very powerful."

Speaking on the new track, Natalie shared: 

“Have you ever wanted to get over someone so much that you figuratively bury them? 'Closure' is the journey you take to finally slamming the door on that person. It's a high energy middle finger to your once beloved.  What I imagine people doing when they listen to this song is bouncing around singing the chorus at the top of their lungs - I wanted to create something that is anthemic but also full of humour.  Because sometimes, crying and laughing are not so different from one another. 

When you are suffering from loss & grief from a bond that's been broken, the emotions you feel are very complex and numerous, the facets of a break up are many - like a rainbow.  This idea interests me because rainbows are always seen as positive, and I believe going through that range of feeling is also positive because it's a necessary process FOR closure.  

So I brought this rainbow idea, which is also a big image in the song's chorus, to all of the creative ideas for the single campaign too – the idea of reflection, refraction and spectrum – what is necessary to achieve closure.”

Making her first steps into music when she won a national song writing competition judged by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Natalie McCool has excelled. 

Releasing her album ‘The Great Unknown’ in 2016, it has made tastemakers across the board fans of her exceptional art, with notable supports with Aurora & Jamie Lawson, & acclaim from The Sunday Times, Q, Pigeons & Planes & Wonderland as well as BBC Radio 1 DJs Huw Stephens & Alice Levine.

Fully wrapped up, her forthcoming album is a fine collection of songs which channel her raw, inimitable writing style. Partly co-written with The Wombats' Daniel Haggis, they capture and crystallize her memories from both childhood and adulthood, weaving deeply intimate stories that channel life's most vital thoughts and feelings like love, jealousy and loss into a skewed mixture of lilting yet gloriously catchy pop songs.

Lyrics
I'm giving up your ghost, gonna let you go
Gonna break the chain, give myself a break
Time to say goodbye, bury you alive	
I've got 6 feet going spare...

...me the illusion
Let's call a spade a spade oh I'm only human

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure, closure
I put flowers on your grave, I wear a rainbow every day
All that I want is closure, closure

I, I got some way to go, I know it's a joke
Tryna break these chains, I've give myself away
Lucky you're not here to lay it all on me dear			
Cos I've been 6 months going spare...

...me the illusion
Let's call a spade a spade let's call it delusion

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure, closure
I put flowers on your grave, I wear a rainbow every day
All that I want is closure, closure

All that I want is closure, closure, closure
All that I want is closure, closure, closure

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure
And all the shit that's meant to go away seems like it's here to stay
All that I want is closure, closure

Closure

Written, recorded, mixed, erased, re-recorded, remixed, worried over and finally finished via video link during the 2020 Melbourne Covid lockdown... Submarine is a song about the end of the world.

Submarine

New Ways to Die

Crawlin Slowly

better days

Daydream

'Saint Marie'

At 55 Saint Marie 
How you stole my heart on a summer breeze 
The wind and rains had took this breath away 
We rumbled home on a downtown train 

At 55 Saint Marie 
A piano played with naivety 
A 3 note phrase that would replay
‘I love you’ 
 
We’ll walk this earth as ‘a’ one 
Daughter to mother, father from son 
All is love

At 55 Saint Marie 
Stands a light house to guide this fleet 
The Great Western warms the wanderer 
A soulful song

In this book of days, a day to daydream
Love is all, love is all, love is all that you need
Illuminate
Illuminate

Be still my heart come the fading light
Be still my heart come the changing times 
How the magic comes to the spaces in between
The rain drenched flags of Saint Marie
The rain drenched flags of Saint Marie

At 55 Saint Marie 
How you stole my heart on a summer breeze
A 3 note phrase that would replay
‘I love you’ 
‘I love you’

For Saint Marie read this is Gorstey's take on a 'love song'.
Written on a cold wet morning in Cardiff, January 2020 and then demoed in the Gorstey Shack not soon after to 'keep zee vibe'. 
With the aid of long-term collaborator and friend Gavin Monaghan the song was brought to life at the Magic Garden Studios in Wolverhampton.
Honorary members of The Gorstey Lea Street Choir that feature here:
Gary Hill adds piano and additional guitar
Ash Sheehan (The Twang, Dead Sea Skulls, Glen Hughes band) adds trumpet/flugelhorn and percussion

Mark Gardener (Ride) adds the haunting 'shipwreck' strings and he mastered the tracks @ his OX4 Sound studio in Oxford

Stay safe, be well
Over and out… for now…

The Flat White Kid.
‘The Sunlit Sound of Staffordshire’

extended play one

Saint Marie

settle down (with you)

From the upcoming 'PCPQ EP'

We wander
We wander

Wait wait
What if we bumped into someone we did not know had the key
Wait wait
What if we knew the clue somehow worked out in these sleepless nights

We know we know where it's buried where it's buried
Dirt under your nails
We wander
We wander

Wait wait
What if we bumped into someone we did not know had the key
Wait wait
What if we knew the clue somehow worked out in these sleepless nights

Wait wait
What if we knew the clue somehow worked out in these sleepless nights

Wait Wait Dig

Singer, songwriter & guitarist. 
'I Fantasise' ❤️‍🔥 out now

Excelling in razor-sharp alt-pop, Natalie McCool’s songs have every hallmark of great pop music with a fresh twist of modern influences.

“Mesmerising lilt-pop gem.”
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Closure

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