{"id":3870,"date":"2020-06-03T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2020-06-03T17:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T16:35:39","slug":"premiere-the-devonns-long-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3870","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: The Devonns &#8211; Long Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE DEVONNS dust off the golden era of 1970&#8217;s Chicago Soul with &#8216;Long Goodbye&#8217; and share it exclusively with <em>Shindig! Magazine<\/em>. Taken from their forthcoming debut long player simply titled <em>The Devonns<\/em>, which is out June 5th through soul specialists Record Kicks.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Devonns - Long Goodbye by Record Kicks\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F824319859&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;secret_token=s-DsrM7f2ZdvC\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>THE DEVONNS started in 2016 after multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mathew Ajjarapu dropped out of med school and found himself unemployed and drifting. Listening to music constantly at the time, he found inspired to put a band together and create his own music. Pairing up with some of the best musicians Chicago has to offer, he founded The Devonns: the rhythm duty is entrusted to Khalyle Hagood (bass), Ari Lindo (guitar) and Khori Wilson (drums).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Long Goodbye&#8217; is actually based on the same composite of the two women I had written \u201cCome Back\u201d about. The original woman, the artsy one\u2026 she was from New York. And the second woman, she was from Los Angeles. So both women were from the coast, and I was from the Midwest. Anyway, I had been listening to a ton of Prince, and I remember seeing this live version of Prince and The Revolution playing, \u201cDo Me Baby\u201d\u2026 it\u2019s like a ten minute long black and white video. But it\u2019s just this really great slow jam, and of course, the band\u2019s great, Prince is great, Dez Dickerson is great\u2026 it\u2019s just amazing. Anyway, I kind of used that as a starting off point, and I came up with the intro part on the piano one day. And just like a lot of these other song ideas, it was just sitting there in my back pocket\u2026 this great musical idea with no lyrics to go with it. After (no joke) about a year\u2026 I guess maybe my brain had finished processing all the pent-up sorrow and loss I had felt from those two women that had I written \u201cCome Back\u201d about\u2026 and I guess I was able to channel it into this song. If you look at the lyrics\u2026 it\u2019s a really sad song, and I think the overarching theme is basically saying that, \u201clook, I f*cked up\u2026 but every time I hurt you, I was really trying to figure out a way to get closer to you because I loved you.\u201d Without going into specifics for each relationship\u2026 I\u2019ve never been great with women, like at all. So a lot of times, I\u2019ll mess up a relationship before I realized I had even done it. (For example, one time, I had just started dating this person who I was really into\u2026 but I didn\u2019t call her for two weeks because someone had told me that you should play hard to get by not calling them\u2026 that way they\u2019ll like you more). That kind of stupid, basic common sense sh*t. So anyway\u2026 for the record, I hadn\u2019t wanted either relationship to end, but due to my lack of experience, both relationships had gone sour and everyone got hurt in the process. I mean, at its worst\u2026 I was so depressed I had contemplated suicide, and I know at least one of them had been about as bad off as me. That\u2019s what the song is really about\u2026 I\u2019m trying to apologize for hurting them, but I also miss them, and I love them, and if there was a time machine, I would do it differently. I think this is the best song I\u2019ve ever written (at least, it\u2019s the one I\u2019m the proudest of, since it didn\u2019t pop into my head complete, but I had to work at it diligently for over a year). But honestly, if I could have given up all of these songs to get one of those relationships back\u2026 I still would do it, because it still hurts like hell all this time later\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3871\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3871\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/001_TheDevonns_10.2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/001_TheDevonns_10.2019.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/001_TheDevonns_10.2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/001_TheDevonns_10.2019-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/001_TheDevonns_10.2019-730x485.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago Soul Survivors THE DEVONNS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>THE DEVONNS<\/em> took almost two years to complete as Mat explains \u201cI am a perfectionist, I had a very specific vision in my head about how it should sound and I wasn\u2019t going to rest until I achieved it. This is a definitely a throwback soul record, as well as being drawn to the lush and intricate arrangements of Motown, I was also inspired by the more lo-fi works of smaller labels such as Chess and Capsoul, and I wanted to capture the magic they had in those recordings in our record, as everything feels too precise nowadays\u201d<br \/>\nIt was thanks to his engineer Mike Hagler, who introduced him to Paul Von Mertons (Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Elton John) who arranges and conducts for Brian Wilson\u2019s live touring show and after a 45 minute phone conversation about what Mat wasn\u2019t keen on, on the album, he realised Paul totally understood where he was coming from.<br \/>\nAfter a few months wait for Paul to get back from touring they entered the studio with \u201cPaul\u2019s players\u201d and as soon as they hit record, Mat explains \u201cI was getting chills up my neck, it was one of the happiest days of my life, and finally we had nailed it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result is an album filled with lavish string arrangements and catchy melodies which take us on a nostalgic musical journey inspired by chic 70s soul, yet the band don\u2019t hesitate to add their own unique and elegant contemporary stamp to the record.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/a2824807348_10-24x24.jpg 24w, 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