“Faster” is the latest single from the budding solo project of Nevil’s frontwoman, Emily No Good. In this third song, she leans towards a more experimental sound accompanied by drony oscillations that leave you with an underwater feeling. Faster was first recorded over 7 years ago and has had many iterations since then. A few months before the pandemic, Emily dusted it off and took the files to Ice Cream Factory studio to rerecord vocals and polish the instrumentals with Matt Parmenter. She brought in Andrew Stevens to record additional drums. Almost everything else from the original track stayed. In her own words, the song is about “how addiction can turn someone you love into a person you no longer recognize.”
Lyrics:
Fast as you run
Your shadow always finds you
And I can’t compete
With what you won’t leave behind you
I feel lost in a way
When you call out my name
Try to leave, wanna stay
Is it you, is it you?
Caught in between
Two planes of our existence
Back so it seems
On the path of least resistance
For once when I need you
I wish that you’d come through
I can’t sleep without you
And I can’t relate when
The things that you hate and
The things that you crave
Are all one and the same
Credits:
Engineered by Emily No Good and Matt Parmenter
Produced by Emily No Good
Mixed and Mastered by Matt Parmenter
Drums by Andrew Stevens
Vocals/Additional Instrumentation by Emily No Good