Kaden Hura-McIntosh Releases New Single ‘Tonight (Where Did You Go?)’
Hawke’s Bay-based indie musician Kaden Hura-McIntosh has released his new single Tonight (Where Did You Go?).
Early this year the Hawkes Bay Music Hub, made for developing musicians in the Hawkes Bay region, announced a scholarship programme for young local musicians to gain the skills needed to record and produce their own music, and Hura-McIntosh was one of the three recipients of this scholarship. Recorded in the collective span of 4 days, the artist worked with local producer Jonny Pipe in Ahuriri, Napier, to turn his acoustic demo into a fully fleshed out and produced song, as well as gain knowledge in professional music production.
Kaden wrote Tonight (Where Did You Go?) about a crush that he had on a girl that had left his life before he could tell her how he felt. This left a huge question mark in the young writer’s life, using the song to process the feelings he had, further saying it was “cathartic to write”. This is reflected through the lyrics, with the opening line “Tonight there’s gonna be some grief” immediately stating the loss, and the line “To my right I spot your big exit, vanish like you never did exist” further on describing their disappearance as if they were never in the writer’s life. The hook of the song “Where did you go, where are you hiding, when you said you belong to me, did you mean it”, simply is a call for the person in question. In the second verse, the narrator looks back on the time they spent together, citing Nirvana directly as something they shared in common and how he has nostalgically tied their relationship to the music.
Stylistically, the song is influenced by the music of American rock band Weezer, something that the artist has channeled before in his previous releases, even mimicking the power-pop sound in his song She Brought Me Here from his EP Lovesick Diary, released last year. He alongside producer Jonny Pipe, dove head first into recreating the classic sounds of palm-muted fuzzy guitars, captivating guitar solos, and harmonies that sounds like the Beach Boys and Beatles meet messy alt rock.
Tonight (Where Did You Go?) is the lead single from his upcoming EP Rock ‘n Roll Diplomacy, and introduces the world to his next guitar-centric project, set to release onto streaming platforms before the end of the year.
Kaden Hura-McIntosh has announced on his Instagram that the EP will be released onto CD, bundled alongside his previous EP Lovesick Diary, sold physically at the IDEATE expo at Arts Inc in Hastings from November 22nd to November 25th.
Album Artwork by Kyleigh Hura
