Having impressed immensely with her collaboration with another rising Irish artist Malaki on ‘Fair Play’ earlier this year, the Berlin-based Irish R&B / soul artist Lucy McWilliams is releasing her debut single ‘Runaway’ this week.
Premiered here as a first listen, ‘Runaway’ is a confident summery solo strike – a bossa nova-tinged R&B song with McWilliams extolling feelings of love, loss and yearning.
McWilliams says “when I wrote it, it began as a love and heartbreak song but I wanted to make it feel happy because so often you look back on relationships and only see the sadness but it’s so important to see the goodness that came out of everything, there’s always a positive”
“The track is really about wanting to run away to a life that you know isn’t there anymore. It’s not real but you can still hold those memories tightly even though you can never go back”
The song is on all streaming services tomorrow – Friday August 21st.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
