Bryan Away has released the first single, "The Lake", from his forthcoming album, Canyons to Sawdust, which is due out of July 9th. The single is accompanied by a beautifully animated video from Qianwen Yu.
This is the project of Elliot Korte, and he had this to say about the new single; "The Lake" began in an email poem with the subject "Hello new email freestyle" to my then girlfriend who I was in a long distance relationship with. It was when I first registered the bryanaway.com domain, and I wanted to show off my new email. Somehow in about 30 minutes I ended up writing most of the lyrics for what would eventually become The Lake. I was open with her about feeling like I was not experiencing the full breadth of human emotion, something I’ve yearned for and which forms the theme of the song. Repeatedly I echo this desire/longing and use nature imagery and the water cycle to describe its scale and my thirst. I ended my poem to her "it will be love, and you will be the lake", imagining all other emotions will be born out of love, and that she will be this infinite reservoir flooding my world".