MARCO has released a new track that he has labeled the “saddest song I’ve ever written” and “probably the least radio-friendly song I’ve ever written”.
‘Drowning Shadows’ features on the deluxe edition of his debut album ‘In The Lonely Hour’, which will be released on November 6.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Beats 1, Smith revealed that the song predates his early hits like ‘Stay With Me’ but has been re-recorded for the re-release.
“I always loved it, but something didn’t happen right with the production when we were going through different versions of it,” he said. “Something didn’t work. I thought of it recently when we were thinking about the repackage, and we went in and just did it with piano.”
Smith also said the track was inspired by literal and metaphorical crossroads which he encountered when getting a taxi back from the recording studio: “One road would lead to gay clubs I used to go out to, and the other road would go home. I was in such a lonely, sad place when I was writing this album that sometimes, I’d literally have to choose. The lyric is, ‘Do I go home for nothing or stay out for more?’
