There’s something paralysingly nostalgic about UK trio Real Lies’ superb new track, ‘North Circular’, which takes the setting of the road of the same name that winds and stretches through the concrete urban jungle of North London.
It plays out like a coming-of-age film – an ode to the essence of youth, and to that harrowingly poignant feeling that lingers whenever you reminisce on those one or two particularly special weekends you wish you could relive but never will, despite all your desperate longing.
The simple storytelling is achingly bittersweet, piecing together the foggy details of a late night through a series of fleeting but utterly profound sensory recollections that are repeated over a rolling, synth-injected 6am house beat, and soon enough you find yourself yearning in synchronisation with the narrator as he pleads, “Please take me back, to where I used to be.” In a sense the song does that for you – for four minutes and 32 seconds you’re pulled right back to that one Saturday night in all its hazy details and that tingling, inexplicable nostalgic wonder, and that’s precisely why ‘North Circular’ is so powerful.
Watch the track’s stunning video for below.
