That trip really helped move the album forward a lot. So we went out to the woods in a cabin and we wrote this song. That's the longest I'd been at home, maybe forever. I remember had written a bunch of songs, but he was like, "We need to get out of our comfort zone and go somewhere else." At that point I'd been at home for a long time. Obviously, this has a sadder turn on it, the sad realization that some of the best moments in our life, as hard as you might try, you can never fully appreciate them until they've already happened. I spent all that time, like I said, sort of facing the things I turned away from, I guess, unintended, and I think this was obviously a beautiful time and it was so freeing and so new and so awesome to share that with both of our mothers.
It was the last real trip I took before the pandemic and the whole album was written out of moments of stillness that quarantine forced on me and everyone else. My fiancé is half Vietnamese and her mom is from Vietnam and it's about a trip that me and her took with both of our mums, and that's the first time they met. Saigon is a place in Vietnam, that's what it used to be called before it was Ho Chi Minh City, and I went. I always had in the back of my mind because it was written even before "Starting Line." I always thought in my head, "Oh that'd be a great album title," because every song on the album can be related back to that sentiment in one way shape or another. Try and fill in all the gaps of the last 10 years. I'm quite fascinated with time and things that are out of your control as human beings, so it's based around that and understanding that, and relinquishing control of it. The whole album is, but this song in particular, really trying to figure out the last 10 years. When I was at home, I looked at things a lot differently. I think for me after being on this journey with the band, I was very young and I felt like when Covid started, I had been traveling a lot since I was 15 and doing this whole beautiful adventure. I had to figure out exactly where to take it and it took a long time to get to where it explodes in the song, which was quite frustrating because the rest of the song was written very quickly and it was one stream of consciousness, I suppose. One day I went to his house and he was playing a synth riff when I walked in, and I said, "Oh that's cool." I sat at the piano and this first verse kind of just fell out of me. I did the whole album with a guy named Sammy Witte. I think it sums up everything lyrically, musically, and sonically on the album. "Starting Line," this one really took the album to the next level, and that's why it's the first song out. “It was created to evoke an emotional response.”īelow, Hemmings walks NYLON through the intimate stories behind each track on the record, musing on his memories, influences, and lessons learned.
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“ was created to be listened to as a full body of work,” he tells NYLON over the phone ahead of its release. Like a wave, every song on the record feeds into the next, and what emerges is a complex and tender portrait of a person coming to terms with the extent of his reality and all the gaps that’ve been missing. What manifests are deeply affecting tracks like “Mum,” where he heartbreakingly admits, “Mum, I'm sorry I stopped calling.” Or the visceral, urgent lead single “Starting Line,” which finds him trying to keep up with the pace of a life determined to outrun him. Over 12 cinematic, massive-sounding songs, Hemmings attempts to answer that question while embarking on some of his most personal songwriting yet. Where has the time - memories, everything - gone? It’s a reckoning of sorts with the last ten years of his life.
Until 2020, when the global pandemic forced him into stillness at his home in Los Angeles - the longest time he's been in one place since childhood.Īmid that period of uncertainty and with an overabundance of time, he created his debut solo album, When Facing The Things We Turn Away From, out now. As the lead vocalist of the global phenomenon 5 Seconds Of Summer, life for the now 25-year-old Australia native had never stopped moving forward.
Luke Hemmings has been on the run since he was 15 years old.
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