The debut single Summer Never Ends reflects the feeling of sitting alone a cold and dark winter longing for the summer time with its brief love affairs never lasting long enough to see the arrival of yet another cold and dark winter season. The cold and loneliness found in the song bites like frost in the night as a warning that the thought of finding ever-lasting summer in your life perhaps is nothing more than a distant dream, a false hope.
Lead singer Nikolai Ryan says, “After another boring date with a girl equally as desperate for a summer crush as myself, I was sitting in my room looking at the falling snow. And just then, I was hit by the yearning of falling in love - the kind of love that feels like jumping on clouds hand in hand with a beautiful girl and a huge smile on your lips. The only thing you want is for this feeling to last forever, like the danish summer night, where shorts, a t-shirt and a beer in your hand are the only things you need.”
Summer Never Ends is released digitally on February 22nd, 2019, and it is the first single emerging from the self-titled debut EP coming soon, and is released by Celebration Records.
lyrics
Starring out the window
looking at the ice cold snow
left alone and misunderstood
tell me did the sun leave for good
It’s been a long while since
my last confession my dear
the time flies by like wind blows
I go weak in my knees when fall is near
in my dreams summer never ends
in my dreams oh oh oh winter’s shorter than it is
I built a lamp to give light
in these dark dark times
somebody pulled the plug and left
now I’m waiting here all by myself
tried to shake it off
by kissing every girl I saw
but Sara, Clara and Rosa-line
didn’t really get me
in my dreams summer never ends
oh in my dreams winter’s shorter than it is
in my dreams summer never ends
oh in my dreams winter’s shorter than it is
credits
released February 22, 2019
Lyrics by: Nikolai Kjeldager Ryan
Music by: Alexander Fonager Mirz, Daniel Nordkap Clifton, Martin Kornum Welling, Nikolai Kjeldager Ryan & Nikolaj Johansen Sodemann
Produced by: Daniel Clifton
Mixed & engineered by: Steffen Lind Sørensen // I Do Your Sound
Mastered by: Brian Mørk Hansen // BMH Lydproduktion
Little Winter are:
Alexander Fonager Mirz : Lead guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals. Daniel Nordkap Clifton : Synth, bass.
Martin Kornum Welling : Effect guitar.
Nikolai Kjeldager Ryan : Leadvocals, rhythmguitar, backing vocals.
Nikolaj Johansen Sodemann : drums, percussion, backing vocals.
Additional musicians:
Leon A. Møller : backing vocals.
Somewhere between melancholy and storming sentimentalism you find the band Little Winter. They write glowing pop songs about
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