CRIMSON IVORY — Still This Close (Soul Rock) | Official Audio

CRIMSON IVORY — Still This Close | Official Audio Released by COMMON FEVER RECORDS. A room with the light still on, and nobody coming back for the coat. Subscribe to follow every COMMON FEVER release — the full [PROJET] playlist is here: [LIEN PLAYLIST] 136 BPM, E minor, and a band that never once drifts: the beat grid holds within sixteen milliseconds across 699 beats, with real weight on the backbeat rather than only on the downbeat. Seventy-one percent of the energy is harmonic — piano, two guitars and a voice — and the brightness is uncannily even from first bar to last, the spectral centre sitting at 2.86 kHz on average and 2.87 kHz at the median. Only eleven decibels separate the quietest passage from the loudest, so this is a room playing at one sustained level rather than a song climbing in terraces, mastered at -18.2 dBFS with peaks left at -3.9. It builds without interruption from a hushed opening to its highest point just after three minutes, empties out for the bridge, then gives its last two minutes to the final chorus and a guitar solo that carries the song out. Late-seventies soul-rock recorded the old way: everyone in the same room, the cymbals and the amp grain left in the mix. The cover is that room. Five players in red smoke, and not one of them facing us: a woman at the upright piano in ivory silk, a guitarist in a white waistcoat, the singer in burgundy velvet with his head down, a bassist in a red shirt, the drummer half out of frame. One table lamp does all the warm work against the crimson. The band's name is simply the two colours in the photograph. [Verse 1] I left the light on in a room I don't sleep in Your coat on the chair like you meant to come back Two hours off and a wire that keeps breathing I count the same three notes so I don't lose the track [Verse 2] You talk in the morning like the night didn't happen I wear the old sentence till it sounds like a fact If close is a distance we learned how to live in I'm holding the quiet you never took back [Pre-Chorus] You don't have to say it right You don't have to be in time [Chorus] I'm still this close No matter how the map unfolds Still this close I kept the quiet that you sold If the night gets longer than the road I'm still this close [Verse 3] I learned your silence better than your language A city between us doing what cities do I keep your coffee cup like a kind of courage It isn't much, but it still looks like you [Pre-Chorus] You don't have to say it right You don't have to cross the line [Chorus] I'm still this close No matter how the map unfolds Still this close I kept the quiet that you sold If the night gets longer than the road I'm still this close [Bridge] So close I could ruin it by reaching So far I could lose it if I blink I won't ask the morning for a reason I'll just stay this close and think [Final Chorus] I'm still this close No matter how the map unfolds Still this close I kept the quiet that you sold If the night gets longer than the road I'm still this close — CREDITS — Written & performed by: CRIMSON IVORY Album: [PROJET] Label: COMMON FEVER RECORDS — COMMON FEVER — Independent music. Shared feeling. An independent label bringing distinctive voices and unhurried production to a catalogue built on nu disco, disco house, and soulful house. #CrimsonIvory #StillThisClose #CommonFeverRecords #SoulRock #SeventiesSoul #LiveRoom #GuitarSolo #OfficialAudio