Exclusive track premiere of ‘Try’ by Postdata, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Run Wild,’ out September 22th via Paper Bag Records.

The solo music project of Wintersleep lead singer and songwriter, Paul Murphy — recently announced the forthcoming arrival of a brand new LP entitled ‘Run Wild,’ due September 22 via Paper Bag Records.

As a follow-up to the record’s first single, ‘Mine The Sea,’ today, POSTDATA returns with a second cut entitled ‘Try’. The electronic R&B sway of ‘Try’ finds Murphy wrestling with the Sisyphean struggle of working as a musician, the sweetness and the bitterness that swap places each day. “Try, try another road, drive until you break down/Try, try, weather all the storms, drive into the eye now,” he urges on the chorus.

As Murphy wrote of the track: “I think this is about following your passion wherever it leads…there’s a sense of humour I think to it and a sense of lightness and darkness and desperation too…essentially, they are the same lyrics in verse 1 and 2 with a slight twist in perspective or that’s what I’m trying to arrive at.”

To bring ‘Run Wild’ to life, Murphy and co-producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, The Strokes, Morrissey) met at Tragically Hip’s renowned Bathouse studio in Ontario, Canada for a five-day stretch of 15 hour work days. Murphy initially planned to work on a record of heavier material, but Chiccarelli listened to a batch of 40 demos and narrowed it down to a well curated, diverse grouping, encouraging Murphy to take the album to more provocative and innovative new places. Drummer Jordan Murphy and bassist Keith Doiron (Walrus) tracked the record with them, then Murphy recorded all the vocals from his home in Halifax. Nyles Spencer (The Tragically Hip, Kevin Drew, July Talk) engineered the record, and Matty Green (U2, Dua Lipa) mixed it.

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