Sometimes there are decisions you need to make as an artist that will impact the next few years of your life. This kind of decision calls everything into question and turns a career upside down. I think Luke Potter's decision to take on the "HECKYL"'s project was the best decision of his life.

Of course, I already liked what he did before. But it seems like he found his way and his sound. And seeing my artists thrive in what they love is my greatest reward.

Here is a new single, for HECKYL, which offers a wonderful contrast between melancholic lyrics and an uplifting and catchy melody. Indeed, the lyrics evoke the emptiness and the absence felt after a breakup while the melody is rather full of colors and based on happy vibes.

You know, that kind of feelings when you were used to a person, in your day-to-day life and then ... nothing. The lyrics "I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed then roll over to the side where you slept" particularly speak to me. It happens to me once in a while when my GF visits her parents across the country. Me too. Sometimes I roll onto my side where she was sleeping and it takes me hours to fall asleep. Of course, this is only short-lived because I know she will come back. In HECKYL's song, in this case, she won't come back. And this is where this sentence, cleverly placed at the end of the chorus, has even more impact.

Very well written, the song plunges us into those sleepless nights, after a breakup, where only questions fill the empty house. And, as already said before, with a striking contrast because the melody is rather an invitation to move forward.

On the production side, it's very, very well done: we can easily recognize HECKYL's touch here. Luke has succeeded in creating an entire musical universe around HECKYL, with somewhat retro synths present from the intro, but without overdoing artifice. The dosage is just ... perfect.

Added to our Main Spotify Playlist, our "Without You" playlist, and played daily on Indie Music Center's Radio.

Written by Niko.

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Lyrics

There’s places to run to but not from yourself

I could give it a try but I’d be fooling myself

It’s hard to admit when things aren’t your fault

But since nobody’s listening it’s my fault that you’re gone

I’m useless without you around

I know I’ll be okay, but not today

It’s almost like I’m coming down

From the heaven you put me in

But now I’m just suffering

I go back and forth all the time

I tell myself that you’re mine

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

You're going getting on with your life

Sleeping with some other guy

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

These places I run to they make me believe

That just for a second that you didn’t leave

But when I wake up and you’re not around

I’m left with the notion that I’ll never be found

I’m so lost without you around

I know I’ll be okay, but I’m afraid

I go back and forth all the time

I tell myself that you’re mine

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

You're going getting on with your life

Sleeping with some other guy

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

It seems all I know is never letting go of your heart

Just enjoy the show

I just hope you’ll remember me

For my love, not my insanity

I go back and forth all the time

I tell myself that you’re mine

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

You're going getting on with your life

Sleeping with some other guy

I wake up, cold sweats, grab a drink and go back to bed

Then roll over to the side where you slept

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