Nosound’s 2018 studio album Allow Yourself finds the band in a new space once more, wholly embracing Alternative/Electronic influences and stripped-down production techniques.
Scintilla (2016) began the process and Allow Yourself takes the band’s minimalist vision even further, incorporating elements from The National, Notwist, and Portishead, alongside an approach to mixing inspired by Bowie‘s Blackstar and Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool.
Founder/writer Giancarlo Erra reflected on the direction of the new material, “The title Allow Yourself reflects this need for change, freeing myself from past stories and influences. The lyrics have also changed, becoming more about hope, the present, and how to influence it. The writing and sounds are now more focused and minimal, guitars were left behind in favour of analogue electronics. Acoustic drums work with drum machines, vocals are more central and upfront and feature a different approach to singing.”
Nosound Allow Yourself us available as a CD in digipack reverse-board packaging with a 16-page booklet, a limited crystal clear 180g vinyl edition in a reverse-board gatefold sleeve, black vinyl, and a fetching red t-shirt.
Orders through official shop receive an exclusive signed postcard & wristband, immediate download of the first single “Don’t You Dare” and the full album as an uncompressed binaural mix & FLAC 5.1 surround sound mix.
LYRICS
Ego Drip
Only a fool
can like you
only a fool
just like you
only a fool
can like you
Something unknown
that breaks through
a new point of view
that breaks you
Shelter
I swear I’ll find you sailing your way
I swear I’ll force cast you away
I won’t stop till you’re safe inside
I won’t sleep till you’re safe inside
I can’t live in the shadow of your grace
I can’t live with the memory of these days
I can’t fall from the safeness of your space
I can’t fall from the beauty of your faith
I swear I’ll forgive you forgive you all
I never warned you in time to go
I won’t stop till you’re safe inside
I won’t sleep till you’re safe inside
I can’t live in the past with my mistakes
I can’t live with the memory of those days
I can’t fall for the sadness of this space
I can’t fall for the illusion in this faith
I can’t live in the shadow of your grace
I can’t live with the memory of these days
I can’t fall from the safeness of your space
I can’t fall from the beauty of your faith
Don’t You Dare
Only half true
Only half true
before I knew
Can’t get through
Can’t get through
don’t want to
You are the taste in my mouth
You are the colours all around
You are the one to play the part
You are the door left ajar
Don’t be proud
Don’t be ashamed
of the scares you carry on
Enjoy the run
of the time going by
Don’t be afraid
Don’t escape
Don’t you dare
My Drug
Get out
tonight
It stays
if you dare
Wake up,
get back
It lasts
if you dive
Numb
and blind
Your laugh
is my drug
Miracle
Oh what have you done
sorrow lingers, life ran
nothing left undone
All the time you won
you don’t need anyone
now I know that you’re the miracle
just begun
This Night
You took me by surprise
The light through the open blinds
Waking up before your eyes
I can see the other side
I stand in front of your face
the radio plays our favourite song
With your hands you’re starting to trace
a way where I have never gone
Please wait, I’ll arrive
Don’t leave, I’ll come
Don’t go by my side
Don’t trust my mind
Light up this night
Please wait!
At Peace
I feel hollow
I’m at peace now
I feel light
as you fade away
And I feel happy
I feel empty now
Growing In Me
This light was strong today
I’ll wait for it again
For colours to emerge from grey
We share our wounds to heal
We shared all the air we could breathe
This day will turn to an end
Where I’m supposed to stand
For colours to emerge from grey
We share our wounds to heal
We shared all the air we could breathe
I allowed this life to stale
I allowed this life to stale
Saviour
If I fall down
When I fall down
You come through
If I go down
When I go down
You come through
And you save me
And you heal me
Will you help me?
Will you love me?
Weights
I promise you, promise you
I will remember
I owe to you, owe to you
I won’t forget
I’ll wait for you, wait for you
to let you go
It tears me now it is too late
Is it too late?
You haunted me
You chased me
You haunted me
You chased me
Give me this weight
You haunted me
In our faith
You chased me
With your fate
You haunted me
In your faith
You chased me
Give me this weight
This weight on you
awaking you in your sleep
It’s what they say
that carries you into the sea
This weight on me
it comforts me in my sleep
It’s what you say
that carries me over the sea
Defy
Defy it
define it
never let it go
never let it grow
Don’t try
don’t lie
keep your feeling low
does it really show?