Noah Reid

Noah Reid Instagram – Never did one of these for Everyday, so… Remember the early days of the pandemic? How fucking weird that was? How our lives just got stripped back to the studs? How it all kind of felt like a total relief and a total collapse at the same time? I would stay up til the birds started singing, not knowing how to differentiate the stages of the day, how to work, how to rest. When I sang this song out loud the first several times, I’d get choked up singing the words “I hope that everybody’s getting by alright.” A lot of people weren’t, for a lot of reasons. Relatively speaking, I was doing fine. I had an incredible roommate, a great place to live, a promising career, really nothing to complain about. But that sprawling unknown, that twisting, unsettling feeling in your gut that it was all gone, that things would never be the same, that your life had been shrunk into some vaccuum packed plastic bag and that no one would ever really know or care because it was happening to them too; that seemed as pervasive as the virus itself. Everyone was struggling to keep up or even give a shit. I live near a park that’s normally filled with the sounds of people out enjoying themselves. Overnight it was empty and silent. I would find myself in the backyard burning cardboard boxes in a small metal basin just to feel like something was happening. Eventually, it became one of the only places we could see our friends or family, distance-huddled around a source of heat and light, back to basics. I started calling it the Fire Escape. It’s on the front cover of the record, in front of the Adjustments store. An invitation to gather around it, take a breath, adjust, start again. Can’t tell you how excited I am to be putting this record into the world in a couple of days. | Posted on 21/Jun/2022 23:57:07