Our Song of the Day comes from Florida-based singer-songwriter Michael McArthur with a live performance of Warmer Months. Taken from his forthcoming LP Ever Green, Ever Rain, it’s a dreamy folk ballad carried with sparse production showcasing McArthur’s singular falsetto vocal delivery. He shared the following on the song:
“There’s a hidden message sewn in the seam of every romantic relationship. It reads, “We made this fire.” Over time we get busy and bored, we thrust words like spears, and it rains. But the message remains. And that red wine stain on your jeans from your very first date, the one you won’t wash out, because it holds the story you’re holding on to, only tells a partial truth. Things were good then, and with four hands and a little patience, they can be good again.”
His full-length debut Ever Green, Ever Rain, will be released on his own label on 25 January 2019, the album’s title inspired by his hometown. “It’s really green here in Lakeland,” he says of his Florida hometown, where Ever Green, Ever Rain was composed. “I’ll sit on the porch during the summertime and watch the daily thunderstorms, and that’s how I came up with the name of the album. I was drawn to the idea that sometimes, the destroying of one thing is the creation of a new thing. You can’t have the green without the rain. I don’t look at it as ‘You have to have the hard times so you can appreciate the good times.’ I look at it as, ‘You have to have them both.’ Because that’s life.”
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