Louis Croft – I’m Going Away (2024)
Like one of those massive fireworks celebrating a New Year, singer-songwriter Louis Croft made quite an entrance into the music industry. Since 2021, Nottingham-based Croft has been recording, producing and honing his own brand of indie-folk. Skip ahead a few years and he has already accomplished much including festival shows, such as Sound City and Dot to Dot, support slots for acts like The Coral and Ocean Colour Scene, worldwide airplay for critically acclaimed singles, and even performing at The City Ground before a Nottingham Forrest match. Reaching far beyond his UK borders, his music dazzles audiences across Europe, North America and Asia. The latest addition to his discography is the single ‘I’m Going Away’.
Following his well-received singles ‘Comin’ My Way’, ‘When You Go Far Away’ and ‘Looking For’, Croft picks up the pace with a high-voltage rush of folk in ‘I’m Going Away’. Think of a Mumford & Sons meets Fleet Foxes with a Bob Dylan songwriting style – that’s potentially what Croft might have in ‘I’m Going Away’. Toe-tapping and sing-along from the outset, it’s hard not to get up and dance with this track; in fact, it might be the most upbeat, “jump about to do a line dance then twirl about until you feel giddy while shouting along to every word” song I have heard in years.
A fully immersive experience, Croft captures you in the anthemic melody; however, it is the lyricism and its execution that wriggles in your ear, rattles around your skull, courses through your veins and steals your heart. Intimate and personal, ‘I’m Going Away’ is the Hallmark movie we all want to see, when Hallmark was good in the 1990s that is. It’s the tale of a lad heading off into the world, finding his place and realising how important family is in his life – all in one long string of words with humour, joy and profound sensitivity lingering in the narrative.
Overall, I am so pleased to come across Louis Croft and his tantalising tunes. He might have made a presence like a crazy Catherine Wheel, but I doubt this firework will fade any time soon.
Find out more about Louis Croft on his official website, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Spotify.
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