13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Lost Demos – Watching The World Go Down

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Here’s some new Kiwi music for you on this fine Thursday morning…its Lost Demos‘ new tune, Watching The World Go Down.

This is the first new music by Lost Demos in three years. The band is led by Auckland-based composer and musician Peter Hobbs. I don’t know if Peter has been watching CNN, but “Watching The World Go Down” definitely captures the feeling I get when checking out the international news.

Here’s the record company blurb:

Lost Demos present their first song in three years: ‘Watching the World Go Down’; a song which beautifully articulates the frustrations – and the possibilities – of this strange new Covid-19 era.

‘Watching the World Go Down’ captures the ups and downs that we’re going through: the loneliness, fears and worries of our collective lockdown, and the hopes for what may come after. We’re separated, but strangely together. From this time some greater good may come, and because of our bubbles we’re more aware than ever of facing these challenges with, or without, those we love.

And it’s an earworm of a song. Lost Demos’ ramshackle sound is in full play, with a hook that’s hard to shake.

Fun fact: “In 2017 Auckland composer and musician Peter Hobbs (Lost Demos) picked up one of the international film industry’s highest honours with a Gold World Medal for Best Original Music in the 2017 New York Festival’s International Television and Film Awards. His soundtrack for the NZ On Air and TVNZ funded film Jean, based on the life of Jean Batten, won the top prize, with ‘Jean’ collecting a remarkable nine awards on the night.” NZ Musician

Hobbs also picked up a Gold award at the 2018 Axis Awards in Craft for Sound Design for Prime TV’s Human Serengeti.

The video for ‘Watching the World Go Down’ is also very much of our time. Lost Demos cut their individual lockdown parts together with clips of their friends and families singing along in their own lockdown bubbles. The result is lovely: a feel-good, collective Zoom-style collage

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