This new song emerged in late December and is the first new music from Amigo The Devil in getting on for two years. The son of a Greek father and Spanish mother, Amigo the Devil – otherwise known as Danny Kiranos – is a first-generation American from South Florida. He came of age in downtown Miami during the mid-1980s and spent significant portions of his earlier career embracing an almost nomadic lifestyle.
‘New Kind Of Lonely‘ has a truly organic feel – there’s life in the playing rather than shiny studio perfection, reflecting the fact that it was, as Kiranos explains, “Recorded in a hotel conference room while on tour in Tasmania, “New Kind of Lonely” gives birth to a reality where a re-routed future doesn’t have to mean failure after all.”
What’s the song about? Well, don’t look to Amigo The Devil for a definitive explanation as he says: “When people ask for an explanation of what a song means or the process it was written through, I often feel stuck. Do I make up this otherworldly, elaborate story of the greater gods and underworld energies fighting their way into my brain to create these 3 minutes in time? Were the lyrics hand-delivered by a dying breed of beetle on an old world scroll? Do I force myself to feel so self-aggrandized that it was all the spark of a genius and the brutal labor of wading in torment. Oh, the fucking burden I carry blah blah blah. No… I just wrote it. That’s it. It happened to be the words that came to mind when I heard the melody in my head. That’s as simple as it usually is and hopefully as beautifully natural as it will ever be. The idea of glamorizing songwriting into some hard labor or philosophic masterpiece, in my opinion, just takes away from the beauty of what songs are. They just are. Just like I am, and you are… and things are. Then they go, often without notice. That’s why it’s so important for me that people take songs for what they need them to be in that moment. Not everyone will have the same kind of lonely and expressing what mine was in the moment I wrote this song takes it away from everyone else’s purpose with it. “
