Homeschool (the solo project of musician Tom D’Agustino, formerly of Active Bird Community) has recently returned with his new single “Next Day’, which follows his new EP, Homeschool: Book II.
The gentle and warm track has a classic folk feel, with a ton of sincerity and generosity that speaks volumes. It’s a track that makes you reflect a bit and see things from his perspective but also a bit of introspection on everything that you haven’t been about to compartmentalize for some time.
Speaking about the creation of the song, D’Agustino adds:
“I wrote ‘Next Day’ instead of writing a song that I had been trying really hard to write, but was getting nowhere. I realized I was forcing it, attempting to make a song that was clever and beautiful – a song that could serve my own self image. It didn’t work. ‘Next Day’ began to emerge when I took breaks and it became a song about keeping the beauty that we discover close to the chest, if at least for a moment, before tossing it into the river of content. The things I do and say come back to my mind like little electric shocks and sometimes that can be really unpleasant unless I put it into a song, into a loose narrative to figure out why I am the way I am. I still have no idea why, but songs seem to help.”
Enjoy a listen to “Next Day” now below.
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