This was collaboration with Kevin Bernstein. We wrote and recorded this one all in my Brooklyn apartment. We got a few noise complaints along the way but got it done.

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Float Around

A retro-modern reflection on the isolation and adversities of city life, Jason Ewald’s “Looking Everywhere” is a soulful homage to the pop songwriting of the ’60s and ’70s.

The song’s rich arrangement belies its humble beginning, conceived on a friend’s upright piano at her Brooklyn apartment. It started as two-chord vamp, a simple bassline, and Jason improvising whatever lyrics came to mind. After sitting idle for two years, the idea was rescued from a digital recorder, and construction began in earnest.

Throughout the writing process, the song stayed true to the sounds Jason and the band grew up with and love. Horn arrangements and rich harmonies provide a canvas for a soulful, reflective—and palpably melancholy vocal performance.

Jason recalled, “It wasn’t until after recording it that I realized how lonely I was at the time. It seemed my subconscious was at work right under my nose.”

Such is existing in New York. What you love about it—what fulfills and nourishes you—is exactly what grinds you down and tests your resolve. Living in a city of millions, yet alone. Navigating periods of doubt, but always emerging victorious.

Looking Everywhere

Jason Ewald - drums, vocals, guitar, keyboards
Jim Saxa - bass
Erik Deutsch - Rhodes, Moog

Mixed by Eber Pinheiro
Mastered by Alan Silverman