Watch Quiet Luke's New Music Video "I Wanna Go"
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NYC-based musician Quiet Luke is sharing a new music video for his second single from his forthcoming EP, Your Happy Place. Your Happy Place follows last years Beholden EP, which introduced the world to Quiet Luke as a promising young producer, songwriter, and singer. Across the new 6 song EP, the listener finds a more relaxed, jovial, and confident Quiet Luke who is torn from love/hate relationship with modern society. The self-produced release also features guest spots from the cosmic London O'Connor and NYC-based rising artist Zuri Marley on the track "Longtimes." Your Happy Place arrives later this week on November 10th in conjunction with a collection of clothing from the YHP brand that is featured in the video.
YHP is a creative partnership between Quiet Luke and Santangelo, seeking to bring joy and blissful distraction to peoples lives through products and experiences. The "I Wanna Go" video was directed by Santangelo Williams and written by Quiet Luke and Santangelo. Inspired by late 80s, early 90s clever-and-charismatic troublemakers like Ferris Bueller and Macaulay Culkin, the creators seek to fuse this nostalgia with the manic state of today's world. The clothes worn in the video are all available at www.quietluke.com.
When Pigeons and Planes asked about the new single Quiet Luke states, "it's is a pop song that relishes in the exhilarating yet terrifying butterfly-feeling of living in a world where nothing is real." The song was written after falling for someone hard while at the same time watching the world around him fall apart, leading to disbelief in anything being "real" at all.
Quiet Luke began work on this music last year, while abroad in Berlin for school. Initially experiencing feelings of isolation in his new environment, Luke turned to the pop music of his childhood for comfort -- listening to playlists that included songs from a range of artists such as ABBA, Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, and Panic! At the Disco. From his music studies in Berlin he became well versed in krautrock, and through his new home's nightlife he became fully immersed in the techno and house scene in Berlin. Sounds and colors began to get brighter as he settled into the foreign city.
While working on music in Germany, Quiet Luke was also taking in the shocking political events happening in America in the fall of 2016 from afar. "YHP" (short for Your Happy Place) was the first song from this time period and it became a place of solitude and escape for Luke - both literally and figuratively. These technicolor sounds were created from the feelings of excitement that accompany exploring a new place, but they also come from a feeling of homesickness for a place that is falling apart. At the end of the year, Luke returned to the US with a new mindset and approach. Determined to make more "fun" music, he broke free from the self-serious nature of 2016's Beholden to establish a more lighthearted sound. But below the surface of Luke's happier style remains the deep-thinking, brooding energy that propelled his earlier music.