{"id":71608,"date":"2021-09-30T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=71608"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T10:36:33","slug":"up-next-leo-sawikin-born-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/09\/up-next-leo-sawikin-born-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Next: Leo Sawikin &#8216;Born Too Late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Make way for what might just be your new favourite song, from a singer that needs to be taken seriously. Leo Sawiken, formerly of The Chordaes, is an artist, poet, multi-talented musician, native New Yorker and expert melody maker. Who also knows his way round a nifty blazer. And his latest drop, &#8216;Born Too Late&#8217;, is a Talk Talk-esque, rock-light delight.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018I wanted something with a lot of up-tempo energy,\u2019 says Leo, adding, \u2018it was inspired by the general feeling of hopelessness and lack of control that have defined the last few years.\u2019 Which sounds counter-intuitive and a little maudlin, but it\u2019s an era-defining narrative that he addresses with total panache. And it just so happens to be catchy as hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Leo\u2019s lifelong reverence of The Beach Boys\u2019 Pet Sounds, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Burt Bacharach and a whole load of disco and soul informing his music, his album Row Me Away was always onto a winner, but which each new drop we just keep getting more and more enamoured. 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And his latest drop, &#8216;Born Too Late&#8217;, is a Talk Talk-esque, rock-light delight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":71611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[28072,27414,77,289,203],"class_list":["post-71608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-born-too-late","tag-leo-sawikin","tag-new-release","tag-new-song","tag-rock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-iCY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70065,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/06\/joni-mitchell-meets-smashing-pumpkins-on-leo-sawikins-grunge-tinged-folk-rock-row-me-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":71608,"position":0},"title":"Joni Mitchell Meets Smashing Pumpkins On Leo Sawikin\u2019s Grunge-Tinged Folk Rock, \u2018Row Me Away\u2019","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"25\/06\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Leo Sawikin brought us \u2018A Whole World Waiting\u2019 earlier in the year, and is now following up with his mental health-inspired folk rock with a more grunge-tinged sound on new track, \u2018Row Me Away\u2019.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0156-scaled.jpg?fit=844%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0156-scaled.jpg?fit=844%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0156-scaled.jpg?fit=844%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0156-scaled.jpg?fit=844%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":70799,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/08\/leo-sawikin-stands-out-on-his-latest-offering-row-me-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":71608,"position":1},"title":"Leo Sawikin stands out on his latest offering, \u2018Row Me Away\u2019","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"12\/08\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Leo Sawikin has just released a track which stands out amongst the rest of the singer-songwriter world, in the form of \u2018Row Me Away\u2019. 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