A song I'm writing for the beautiful and tragic Tilikum. Learn the heartbreaking story: http://www.magpictures.com/blackfish/

Blackfish

This is another bangin' funk/house/EDM track I wrote that I thought could be great for a tv spot for athletes or something high energy.

Garbo

The cynic

Harvest moon on deer horns.
Owl spins his head 'round.
Cool stream looks black to me
as blood at night.

Nothing Digital can replace this
Shapeshiftr.
I'm gonna blow your mind.
Nothing Digital can replace this
Shapeshiftr.
I'm gonna blow your mind.

Claw or hoof... or snake skin...
Maybe let my wings unfold.
The stars shift
and shine their light
on your dark heart.

Nothing Digital can replace this
Shapeshiftr.
I'm gonna blow your mind.
Nothing Digital can replace this
Shapeshiftr.
I'm gonna blow your mind.

Bow down to the New Order of things.
I can match any Beast you bring.
We're crushing the Old World underfoot.
We're bringing back The Magic you took.

[You're loving the beast within.
Now this body is beast to bear]

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Vocals, Keys, Arrangements: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jacob Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Guitar: Dave Levison
Engineering, mixing: Tim Boland
Mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge
Produced by Nature Loves Courage and Tim Boland

Buy on Bandcamp

Shapeshiftr (Radio Edit)

I thought I was cool. 
I thought I was bold. 
I thought I was bright.
But every day of my life is a fight for a piece of the pie.
There’s poison in each bite. 
I don’t know why I even try.
Like a fly to wanton boys am I to the guys in ties.

Got so many flaws to hide.
I got so much on my mind.

Went to the right school. 
I followed the rules. 
I said the right things.
I couldn’t wait for the status and the spoils that my life would bring.
Now I’ve got this debt to pay. 
All I want to do is play,
But I sit at a desk and I stare at a clock every single day.

Got so many flaws to hide.
I got so much on my mind.

I left it all behind.
Now I’m blissed out all the time.
I left it all behind.
Now I’m blissed out all the time.

Everything’s gold. 
Everything’s nice. 
I accept and abide.
In the hour of the day that I take to spark up my life.
I like to get away 
And live inside this haze.
It’s a much better option to survive than to scream or cry.

The world just passes by.
I got nothing on my mind.

I left it all behind.
Now I’m blissed out all the time.
I left it all behind.
Now I’m blissed out all the time.

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Vocals, Keys, Arrangements: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jacob Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Engineering, mixing: Tim Boland
Mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge
Produced by Nature Loves Courage and Tim Boland

Blissed

My light is bright
Bring in the nighttime
I'm laying the siege
I'm playing the strategy
You caught my eye
Rolling the way you do
Baby you bring the proof

I'm done with the fight
Gotta say goodbye to the day
Gonna take you home with me tonight
Gonna show you how the players play

Long ago, I wouldn't believe it
That I could achieve it
That I could find someone like you
But now I know
How to get stars aligned
How to undermine
All the fears that were coming through

Too little love and it's overrated
Too much love it's complicated
Too little love and it's overrated
Too much love it's complicated

I'm done with the fight
Gotta say goodbye to the day
Gonna take you home with me tonight
Gonna show you how the players play
I'm done with the fight
Gotta say goodbye to the day
Gonna take you home with me tonight
Gonna show you how the players play

I'm done with the fight
Gotta say goodbye to the day
Gonna take you home with me tonight
Gonna show you how the players play
I'm done with the fight
Gotta say goodbye to the day
Gonna take you home with me tonight
Gonna show you how the players play

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge
Produced by Nature Loves Courage and Tim Boland

Players

Creationist

one more attempt at a Heinz Kiessling style breezy groove.

Lemondrops

"All of the Things” is the second single from our New EP dropping September 29, 2023. The heroine of our story has been driven "crazy" by her nemesis but eventually finds a way to escape.

Check out the music video here:

https://youtu.be/thGNjfWCSd8?si=V0OfWjeDXniz5dNK

DIRECTED BY:
Alissa Wyle, Holy Smoke Photography

STARRING NATURE LOVES COURAGE:
Words, Music, Vox: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jake Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Guitar: Joe De SA

Mixed by Erik Sonderlon at Cosmo Studios, Hollywood.
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum.

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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All of the Things

From the new EP from Nature Loves Courage dropping September 29! 


Words, Music, Vox: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jake Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Guitar: Joe De SA

Mixed by Erik Sonderlon at Cosmo Studios, Hollywood.
Mastered by Maor Appelbaum.

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Rubicon

Frequencies

I’m holding on to the things that have truth at the core.
Not gonna err on the side of what happpened before.

I have all these fears
And dreams I have to face 
But i just don’t know how
I’m getting rid of all
the white noise in the way 
it’s getting clearer now

Just look around at the circumstance we designed:
Pray to the gods we survive and
we aren’t left behind.

I have all these fears
And dreams I have to face 
But i just don’t know how
I’m getting rid of all
the white noise in the way 
it’s getting clearer now
It’s getting clearer now

All this time
All this time
All this time
All this time

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Vocals, Keys, Arrangements: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jacob Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Guitar: Joe De Sa
Sax, Flute: Dan Boissy
Trumpet: Dave Richards 
Recording: Tim Boland
Mixing: Erik Sonderlon
Produced by Nature Loves Courage

Clearer

Hey
Hey

Here we go
With the show
And that Dark Horse not in the lead?
Can't you see
Symmetry
In the strange lifestyle that we lead?

Here we are floating again
Feeding on suspense
Here I am feeling alive
I'll bide my time
Until I get around to making you mine

Why be alone in your secret, honey?
Why be alone in your secret, honey?

Hey
Hey

Who's the man
Hanging back?
He's the hardest one you've got in the pack
Launch a flare
Return the stare
I don't care how the odds are stacked

Here we are floating again
Feeding on suspense
Here I am feeling alive
I'll bide my time
Until I get around to making you mine

Why be alone in your secret, honey?
Why be alone in your secret, honey?
Why be alone in your secret, honey?
Why be alone in your secret, honey?
Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Bass: Jacob Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Recording: Tim Boland
Mixing: Erik Sonderlon
Produced by Nature Loves Courage

Dark Horse

Now the lights are coming up
And revealing all the truth
We're becoming lesser humans
Don't believe it?
I have proof
I know it makes you feel frustrated
You're not "the one" they should include
But everyone is implicated
And it's time we called a truce

No one likes a microscope
Looking at the way we live
No one wants to think they've done
Things someone else needs to forgive
We've been living in a dream
We've enjoyed special gifts that
Everyone does not receive
And it's time to make a shift

I don't know what we're debating?
I can see you are me and you aren't Free
I don't know what we're debating?
I can see: You are Me and We aren't Free

Now we're standing at the edge
Of something promising and new
What seems like dignity to me
Looks far too radical to you

I don't know what we're debating?
I can see you are me and you aren't Free
I don't know what we're debating?
I can see: You are Me and We aren't Free

I don't know what we're debating?
I can see you are me and you aren't Free
I don't know what we're debating?
I can see: You are Me and We aren't Free

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Strings: Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles
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Produced by Nature Loves Courage

REFERENCE_MASTER

Lesser Humans

“Two Strangers” is an introspective song exploring a softer, more mysterious
sound from NLC. A delicately crafted immersion of gentle synths, sparkling piano and haunting guitar, the vibe harkens back to The Cure and Cocteau Twins, and a sense of longing, the feeling that fulfillment is just a whisper out of reach. Inspired by the tv show “Severance”, the lyrics examine the concept of a split consciousness, a secret “second self”, or “doppleganger” potentially living within each of us.

Music, lyrics, vocals: Psykick Girl
Music, Guitar: Joe De Sa
Drums: Garrett Smith
Bass: Jake Bergman
Recorded & Mixed by Erik Sonderlon at Cosmo Street Studios

I know my
Doppleganger lives.
I can feel her shadow me.
If you wanted a lover,
You should know…
I’m not sure which one of us was unique?

I can feel it: 
Something in the air is disturbed. 
In the background:
The city plays in reverse. 

Sometimes we can 
Hear it calling,
But we turn away instead.
The mirror image
Of two strangers, 
Balanced on a knife’s edge.

I feel every signal you send.
I know you have your human needs.
Noone can comprehend,
The mutual bliss we send. 
And all the miles we feel in between.

Now I know it:
Something in my soul is aloof,
But I promise 
I will always tell you the truth.

Sometimes we can 
Hear it coming,
But we turn away instead.
The mirror image
Of two strangers, 
Balanced on a knife’s edge.

Two Strangers

Try to remember what drew you here:
It’s a distant dream of a memory now. 
You’ve gotta learn how to pay attention. 
There’s so many lost souls 
that don’t have control.

The bitter winter of their criticism looms.
You dropped into this town without a parachute. 

Pay attention:
Keep track of all the signs.
Pay attention:
Stay attracted to things 
that make you scared. 
Pay attention:
All this time you’ve
Been only half-alive. 
Just take in all the life everywhere

You’ve awakened from your fugue
And you feel like a bit of an iconoclast.
You’ve learned how to pay attention. 
The things that mattered to you before
Don’t matter anymore. 

All the years of looking for the rewards,
You were blind to the real restitution.

Pay attention:
Keep track of all the signs.
Pay attention:
Stay attracted to things 
that make you scared. 
Pay attention:
All this time you’ve
Been only half-alive. 
Just take in all the life everywhere
Just take in all the life everywhere
Just take in all the life everywhere

Pay Attention

It's all the same fakers
Pulling hard at our strings
Cold and calculated
To hide away everything

I'm holding out for something a little bit better
I'm hoping everybody's a little bit smarter

We'll grab hold of the light
The light we can detect
In people we know
Never gave up the fight
Living in Elevation
It feels like a dream
We've been talking about
For a thousand years
But could never achieve
Living in Elevation

Can you feel what I feel?
I'm running out of time
I feel a little alienated
Like I'm a satellite
Lately I've been thinking we appear to move
Like so many ragtag fools

We'll grab hold of the light
The light we can detect
In people we know
Never gave up the fight
Living in Elevation
It feels like a dream
We've been talking about
For a thousand years
But could never achieve
Living in Elevation

And we'll learn together
And we'll move together
And we'll love together
We've got to live together

Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?

We'll grab hold of the light
The light we can detect
In people we know
Never gave up the fight
Living in Elevation
It feels like a dream
We've been talking about
For a thousand years
But could never achieve
Living in Elevation

Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?
Can you feel what I feel?

Elevation


I could sense you in the room.
It was before I even knew you.
That moment: I want to relive it.
They say you’re a Romeo but I don’t believe it.

The bro quotient here is high,
But I can tell you’re unalike
The typical company I’m keeping.
They say you’re a Romeo but I don’t believe it.

I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.
I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.

The situation’s not unique.
You don’t have to feel bad for me
Or the anxiety I’m feeling.
They say you’re such a Romeo and I can see it.

I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.
I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.

I thought that lightning never strikes twice.
I should’ve look away from your blinding light.
I’ve got to formulate an escape.
I thought I had immunity to your ways.

I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.
I just want to live inside your world.
I just want to keep myself wrapped up inside your light.

Romeo

The Book of You

Underneath
In my roots,
feels like
Gasoline
In the wounds.
This feels like 
Strychyne 
In the spine. 
I’ll BURN away
a weird time
Of my life.

I’ll tear out your pages and light them on fire

Breaking through 
From the source
I can see 
Everything 
Down the road 
Heaven knows
What I need
Anymore 
It wears me out
Your m.o.:
Keeping score

I’ll tear out your pages and light them on fire
(It’s a shaky road to honesty)

The Book of You is cruel.
Everything we tried to save in vain. 
The Book of You is cruel.
Now nothing but the subterfuge remains.

Steady now:
Make space.
Break it down.
Was never meant
To survive
—Anyhow.—
Suit yourself:
Understate
What we had.
I’ll walk away
With a trick
Left in my hand.

The Book of You is cruel.
All the things I tried to save in vain. 
The Book of You is cruel.
Nothing but the subterfuge remains.

The Book of You

Pixelate

It’s the way I was raised:
To give my opinions
on the news of the day.
Did I commit a crime?
I was just a little bit ahead of my time.

I won’t apologize 
‘Cuz I’m not sorry.
I just need to express 
All the multiple personalities 
colliding inside me.

I messed up once again. 
I made an enemy 
and lost a friend.
You’re telling me I have to clean the slate.
I messed up once again. 
I made an enemy 
and lost a friend.
I never said I was some kind of saint.

I’m not trying to be unkind.
I can’t make all I say anodyne. 
You’re shutting me out more.
Soon I’ll to have use semaphores. 

 I won’t apologize 
‘Cuz I’m not sorry.
I just can’t 
make any sense 
Of the mad pretense 
That intends to infect me

I messed up once again. 
I made an enemy 
and lost a friend.
You’re telling me I have to clean the slate.
I messed up once again. 
I made an enemy 
and lost a friend.
I never said I was some kind of saint.

I messed up once again. 
I messed up once again. 
I messed up once again. 
I messed up once again. 

Messed Up

Underneath the ruse of nonchalance
They act indifferent to
All the stares and the burning signs of life
They just devour your pride

I feel so low
My brain just can't escape
These strange creatures here
Thrown all alone on an island of defeat
With these strange creatures here

I'm desperate to relate
But i know they
Won't give me the time of the day
I'm just a boy who wants
To understand love
But I guess i'm not cool enough

I feel so low
My brain just can't escape
These strange creatures here
Thrown all alone on an island of defeat
With these strange creatures here
I feel so low
My brain just can't escape
These strange creatures here
Thrown all alone on an island of defeat
With these strange creatures here

Do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do

Nature Loves Courage is an Electronic Art Rock Band Based In Los Angeles, bending entire genres to our will.

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Vocals, Keys, Arrangements: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jacob Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Engineering, mixing: Tim Boland

Strange Creatures

Cybermonks

A DJ set I put together of my tracks and performed at Blue Monkey Bar in East Hollywood back in the day. You might enjoy if you like old school breaks and imdustrial hip hop. This is like 20 years old now!!!! It’s a medley of a bunch of songs I wrote in the early 2000s that have been featured on Oprah, tv commercials for Aquafresh and Gillette, shows on E! … good fun!

Get in the Groove (DJ Mixx)

I feel a tectonic shake 
When I’m with you.
There’s an alternate state 
We’re coming through.
I’m a little out of my mind 
Thinking of you.
You make me feel so safe 
With all that you do.

Da da, da da, da da, 
da da da da da

Lately the state of things
Can bring me down.
I can feel the weight of things
And all my doubts…
Then I think about you, babe
And i know how
I can find that Zen place
When you’re around.

I’m not afraid to wrap around in Blue.
Transcendence I can feel when I’m with you.

Da da, da da, da da, 
da da da da da

Music, words, vocals, keys: McKenna Rowe
Bass: Jake Bergman
Drums: Garrett Smith
Guitar: Joe De Sa
Recorded & mixed By Erik Sonderlon at Cosmo Street Studios



Blue

Angelyne

Singer/songwriter/producer. Lead singer for Nature Loves Courage.

I love pop, electro, funk, hiphop, rock, industrial... why limit myself to one genre? :)

I license to tv shows/commercials and like to collaborate. 

I love crafting beats, grooves and atmospheres, but I also play instruments. 

Influences: Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, NIN, Meat Beat Manifesto, St. Vincent, Chemical Brothers, Lusine, Zero 7, Goldfrapp, Garbage, Mac Quayle, Eskmo, Ben Salisbury.

PSYKICK GIRL

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