Oh, the joyful harmonies of Bandits On The Run – it has been too long since we’ve had new music from them. Here at last is a new song, and ‘Back Home‘ could be a holiday anthem for reuniting families but it’s actually a lot more personal than that.
“I wrote the first lyrics years ago,” says Adrian Blake Enscoe (he/they), explaining that inspiration came as their wife and bandmate Sydney Sheperd (she/her) was working for several months across the country. “I knew she was returning home and that we would both be a little different — time changes you, places change you, and, for sure, relationships change as we wend our way through evolving connections with our loved ones. I wanted to hold a little while on how a relationship becomes a home for those changes — how when you keep coming back to someone or something you love, it starts to become a part of your story, of who you are, like the rings of a tree contain the whole history of what the tree went through. When Sydney arrived, we collaborated to finish the lyrics to the song, completing the circle.”
