MorMor - "Don't Cry," a 2020 single on Don't Guess Inc.

For the past couple of years, Toronto’s MorMor (musician Seth Nyquist) has been crafting spellbindingly evocative music that has the power to cut your heart in two. Following up 2018’s Heaven’s Only Wishful EP and last year’s Some Place Else EP comes the single “Don’t Cry.” Pulsating with a feverish darkness, the raw lyrics capture the anxiety of lockdown during which the song was made. “I’m tired of the days/ They came and went/ We were left alone/ Finding it hard to breathe,” warbles Nyquist, who had this to say about the song: 

“I had started to write again in December with a few songs underway, but in March the world as we knew it came to a halt. Though I tried to continue writing it didn’t feel right. I was told I was being hard on myself, but I have always used music as a way of making sense of things. Suddenly there were just too many things to make sense of: A Global pandemic, the sudden lockdown, shortly followed by the protests.

"Voices were raised around the world because people have had enough. Mourning has become so painful that people are demanding changes. I felt I had to reflect that. Tears have fallen and we can no longer pretend that we’re not all in this together."

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MorMor - "Don't Cry," a 2020 single on Don't Guess Inc.
For the past couple of years, Toronto&rsquo;s MorMor (musician Seth Nyquist) has been crafting spellbindingly evocative music that has the power to cut your heart in two. Following up 2018&rsquo;s Heaven&rsquo;s Only Wishful EP and last year&rsquo;s Some Place Else EP comes the single &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Cry.&rdquo; Pulsating with a feverish darkness, the raw lyrics capture the anxiety of lockdown during which the song was made. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m tired of the days/ They came and went/ We were left alone/ Finding it hard to breathe,&rdquo; warbles Nyquist, who had this to say about the song:&nbsp;
&ldquo;I had started to write again in December with a few songs underway, but in March the world as we knew it came to a halt. Though I tried to continue writing it didn&rsquo;t feel right. I was told I was being hard on myself, but I have always used music as a way of making sense of things. Suddenly there were just too many things to make sense of: A Global pandemic, the sudden lockdown, shortly followed by the protests.
"Voices were raised around the world because people have had enough. Mourning has become so painful that people are demanding changes. I felt I had to reflect that. Tears have fallen and we can no longer pretend that we&rsquo;re not all in this together."
<a href="https://kexp.org/podcasts/song-of-the-day/2020/11/18/mormor-dont-cry/">Read the full post on KEXP.org</a>

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