NEO-CLASSICAL ARTIST NEIGHBORHOOD LIBRARIES ANNOUNCES NEW EP POSTCARDS FOR THE BACKYARD, pt. 2
February 10, 2023 BY Jason Currell
Today, Vancouver-based composer, producer, film scorer, and neo-classical performer Taylor Swindells aka Neighborhood Libraries, announces his new EP, Postcards For The Backyard, pt. 2. Taylor, who previously performed in indie-rock outfit The Tourist Company, recorded the EP at his home studio, aptly named The Edge Of The World, drawing inspiration from fellow neo-classical composers like Olafur Arnalds and Peter Broderick. Part 1 of the project began while Taylor was transitioning from a musician’s life of travel to stasis when the world shut down in early 2020. He started to create ambient-electronic, piano-driven music that helped him work through his feelings of hope, wonder, fear, and anxiety and ultimately enabled him to seek peace.
“Postcards for the Backyard Pt 2 is about finding beauty in the immediate, craving quiet in an increasingly noisy timeline. After nearly a decade spent touring, this collection of songs tries to leave that restlessness behind and build a place to belong,” Taylor says of the upcoming EP.
Taylor also releases a stunning new single and video “As The Smoke Begins To Clear.”
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Taylor describes the new single, “’As the Smoke Begins to Clear’ is about the end of an era and the beginning of something new. My current life-stage seems to be full of those moments of uncertainty and I always feel strange navigating them. This piece pulls many threads together to find a blurry sense of direction, not clear but still purposeful.”
He continues, “We’ve had a lot of forest fire smoke in Vancouver over the past few summers, making climate chaos a pretty consistent part of life. The title comes from the day after a heavy rain finally drives the smoke away and it gets easier to breathe for a while.”
Stay tuned for more to come from Neighborhood Libraries soon.
