Name: Superficial by Tommy Down
Duration: 3 min 17 s
Description: https://www.facebook.com/Tommy-Down-138191366266833/

Getting a script picked up is a cool thing if you’re a scriptwriter, but not for an aspiring musician. Writing a script for a sequel to 1998’s instant classic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ set in the present day probably sounds as dumb as it actually is, but that's exactly what I had done.

What started out as a fun fan-fiction ode with a nod to the Tinder generation eventually made it’s way into the right hands, got picked up, cast and nearly green-lit. It wasn’t until July of this year that the studio finally released me from my contract, which meant that I could go back to writing my album. 

So here’s the first single. It’s called ‘Sauvage’.

Sauvage

Chasing Down My Mind

Too Tough For Mr Big Stuff 

Released 7th September on 37 Adventures

Too Rough

Produced, Written and Performed by Glassio 
feat. NAKAYA 
Additional production by Birocratic 
Mixed/Mastered bt Birocratic

Daydream (feat. NAKAYA)

BOXER - Do You Need It? (w/ Madeleine Mayi)

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Superficial

This song is about that person who’s deeply broken and desperate for love. The guy who’s manipulating someone to come be with him, but only when it’s most convenient. The words “Jigoku Tengoku” mean “hell or heaven” in Japanese. It’s a pretty lie he’s telling his lover, saying he’ll follow them to the depths of hell or heaven, that “this time’s different,” but those are just empty words.
 
We went through a lot of versions of this song, changing the tempo, should it be swung or un-swung, how should we ground the chords in the verses and what should that final synth sound like? We found solace after listening to artists like Leon Vynehall, Jamie xx, and Empress Of and thinking about how to use synths to support the groove rather than just reiterate the chord progression. We spent a long time on the synth that comes out at the end, automating the envelope and adjusting timing…for us, that had to be the biggest surprise the song had to offer.

Lyrics:

VERSE:
I’m not lying
when I told you we had something to give
This time’s different
I will  worship you like religion
This ain’t the coke talking
(or the) out of my mind ranting
This time
I won’t change my mind
oh oh no
I’ve left those thoughts behind 
oh oh no

VERSE 2:
Believe me
It’s not that I just want you in the night
Believe me
Coincidence is simple when you’re high
Jigoku Tengoku
Wherever I follow you
Babe your
Amethyst loving keep me warm
Sometimes I’m swallowing few white stones

VERSE 3:
2AM texting and I keep you waiting
I’m trying to test you to see you desperate
Jigoku Tengoku
Wherever I follow you
Babe your
Amethyst loving keep me warm
Sometimes I’m swallowing few white stones

VERSE 4: 
I’m not lying
I just need you temporarily
This time’s different
I know I’m ill don’t run away from me
lost in the deep end
I’m thinking bloodstone
your cold loving will
be keeping me warm

VERSE 5:
2AM texting and I keep you waiting
I’m trying to test you to see you desperate
Jigoku Tengoku
Wherever I follow you
Babe your
Amethyst loving keep me warm
Sometimes I’m swallowing few white stones

HOOK:
I keep making the same old mistake

Jigoku Tengoku

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Produced by Kinnship, written by Kinnship and Naomi Scott. Mastered by Guy Davie.

Taken from the album Kinnship Presents: A Thousand Fibres, available now: AWAL.lnk.to/AThousandFibres

Superficial

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