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Aug 13, 2021 · About “When Facing the Things We Turn Away From”. In June 29th 2021, Luke Hemmings, from the popular band 5 Seconds of Summer tweeted a video, containing a website (which ended up...
When Facing the Things We Turn Away From is the debut studio album from Australian singer-songwriter Luke Hemmings, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. The album was preceded by three singles and released on 13 August 2021.
- "Starting Line"
- "Saigon"
- "Motion"
- "Place in Me"
- "Baby Blue"
- "Repeat"
- "Mum"
- "Slip Away"
- "Diamonds"
- "A Beautiful Dream"
"Starting Line," this one really took the album to the next level, and that's why it's the first song out. I think it sums up everything lyrically, musically, and sonically on the album. I did the whole album with a guy named Sammy Witte. 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 s...
The album title came from this. I always had [the line] 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. Saigon is a place in Vietnam, that's what it used to be...
I remember [Witte and I] 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. That's the longest I'd been at home, maybe forever. So we went out to the woods in a cabin and we wrote this song. That trip really helped move the album forward a lo...
For me, this was about letting someone down that you love and then ending up in a place where you understand how important they are to you, and they'll always have a place in you and it being something that you continue on with. But this song is interesting because on every other song I was very, for lack of better word, annoying, and very critical...
This one was written with my fiancé Sierra. She's been such a beautiful beacon of hope and sort of got me to where I am as a man [laughs] and a human, and she's made such a positive impact on my life. I think it's interesting that this song on the album, it seems her writing on it has had that effect on this song, in comparison to the other songs o...
I was listening to a lot of Neil Young. I think his lyricism and his attention to detail, it definitely affected me. I wanted to make something that he would enjoy. That's how “Repeat” started; I was listening to a lot of After The Gold Rush, his album. For me, [the song is] like that endless sort of feeling after chasing something for so long and ...
Very Radiohead-inspired, I think. I think it's the second song I wrote with Sam which is kind of crazy; it's very heavy of a song. As you get older, if you're lucky enough to have... a family like I do you appreciate them more and more, especially… I haven't seen them since Covid started ‘cause they're in Australia. I'm looking back on all those ye...
On that trip that I was talking about in "Motion," this was the first song we wrote when we got to the cabin in the middle of the woods. It was instantly written and it was originally dark with a drum machine. I want to put that version out because it's crazy where it's gotten now. I think sometimes in moments of happiness, you feel like you're und...
It's one of those where I sum it up on the song better than I could ever say. But this is thrown back to eight years ago and being a young individual and going through such a whirlwind of experience and not having the mental capacity and the tools in myself to understand how to navigate that. I think it's amazing that I was able to do that at such ...
I love [M83] and old influences sort of creep in in different ways. I love Pink Floyd, War on Drugs, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, all these sort of big grand productions and feelings and they evoke such a tangible emotion from you. That's truly what I wanted to do and this song definitely is. It's probably the most ethereal and the biggest moment because...
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Aug 2, 2021 · Hemmings’ first solo album ‘When Facing The Things We Turn Away From’, out August 13, seeks to rectify the gaps that the Australian singer has in his memory from his rise to fame that his...
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Jun 28, 2021 · Luke Hemmings - When Facing The Things We Turn Away FromSign up for updates: https://www.lukehemmingsofficial.com Subscribe to my channel for more: https://s...
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Aug 12, 2021 · Album Review: When Facing The Things We Turn Away From by Luke Hemmings. August 12, 2021 Neha Magesh. Luke Hemmings, 5 Seconds of Summer frontman, released his debut album on August 13th, 2021. The album was written over quarantine, containing themes of isolation, growing up, and reminiscing on childhood and the person Luke used to be.
