A laid-back production detailing an on-the-road mishap, “Lukewarm Lover” is a new track from Mikey Demilio, a songwriter from New Jersey who’s based in Nashville, Tennessee.
“My car’s underwater,” Demilio laments amidst twangy guitars and slight percussive taps, driving into a weep-y, melodic captivation into the “put her on a magazine cover,” hook. The simultaneous conveying of losing a car/home and a lover proves compelling amidst this dreamy, guitar-fronted production and lush vocal delivery, conveying they’re “just trying to get by,” even in face of this unfortunate tumult.
Demilio elaborates on the track’s backstory:
“A song about my car going underwater after an open mic out in Leipers Fork, TN. A very country side type place outside Nashville along with losing one a lover I met when I first moved to Nashville from New Jersey. The car that went underwater was the car I was living in on the road. Song recorded in Savahnnah, TN with a good friend of mine Parker Forbes in his Shed studio out in the country.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of August 2023’ Spotify playlist.
