Parcels Noah Hill Shares Debut Single ‘It’s All In My Head’
The bassist and vocalist has also announced a run of shows across Australia, North American and Europe.
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Parcels member Noah Hill is going out on his own, releasing his debut solo single, ‘It’s All in My Head’, out now via Because Music.
Written over Christmas at his family’s home in the Northern Rivers of NSW, ‘It’s All in My Head’ came about during a tough time for Hill, who went through a break-up and a health scare.
“It felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me,” says Hill. “I sort of fell apart.” He even began to doubt his place in Parcels. “Whether that extreme lifestyle on tour would be sustainable for me,” he reflects, “started to feel like a real question.”
Written and produced by Hill, the song, which finds the Parcels bassist trying to find peace while dealing with anxiety and a racing mind, was, by his own admission, hard won. “I worked very hard on this one, much more than any of the others. It was a true battle, which makes sense, because I was battling my mind at the time.”
The track is accompanied by a music video filmed in Sydney and co-directed by Hill and longtime friend Cai Leplaw. “When the time came to visually represent these songs, there was no better person to help tell the story,” says Hill of Leplaw.
The video tries to capture the anxiety at the heart of the song, spiralling overthinking, and the inner voices that make the future feel doomed. "Me literally running from and confronting myself," Hill explains, "until at last trying to push through to a place of freedom."
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After years within the collaborative framework of Parcels, who have released five EPs, three studio albums and two live albums and are regarded as one of the country’s most inventive electro-pop outfits, Hill’s solo outing is a much more laidback adventure.
Channelling the acoustic folk of artists such as MJ Lenderman and early Bon Iver, Hill is taking his new music on the road, performing two special gigs in Sydney and Melbourne next month, before heading to Europe and North America in September.
‘It’s All in My Head’ by Noah Hill is out now via Because Music. Listen here. Tickets for Hill’s Sydney and Melbourne gigs are on sale now here.
