OFFICIAL RELEASE: Love Shaped Hole

***IT'S HERE!***

Chad Macomber returns in a big way after a few years on hiatus with other bands and working on other peoples' albums. "Love Shaped Hole" is the first new original release by Chad since 2007/2008's double A side "On the Run"/"False Starts and Broken Hearts." This is the first release from the forthcoming album titled "The Diaries of Mr. Cam DeBarcho." 

In the song the main character stands at the intersection of two universes: one with his lover and one without. The dynamics of the music separate the two worlds which battle back and forth into a dreamy state. The lyrics find the character realizing what a world would be like had things turned out differently (not unlike Jimmy Stewart in Miracle on 34th Street). 

Macomber calls on his musical influences and multi-instrumental talent to provide a dynamic atmosphere to the song. Without further ado we at Ashes to Embers provide you with Chad Macomber's new single....

 "Love Shaped Hole"

a love shaped thank you to Duncan, Kuc and Corley

free download here

Love Shaped Art

Accompanying artwork for the single "Love Shaped Hole"

A Page from the Diary

With the new single "Love Shaped Hole" looming I present to you a page from Cam's diary. This is actually two separate poems that I grabbed from his diary and combined into one song. The chorus is a poem titled "Alive Like You," and the last 3 quatrains (and I use that term loosely since there are 5 lines not 4) is titled "Prison Skin." You can read both of them on his blog. I actually wrote the first quatrain in the lyrics to flesh out the song. There is a bit of idolatry in the chorus, and it seems to be religious in nature. However, in the verse (the poem "Prison Skin") Cam is speaking of putting a different face forward and trapping yourself within that skin. I really liked the idea of this, so I ran with it. He writes of masks and protection and self imprisonment which to me says that he has put this guise up in order to protect a fragile ego. When I combined the poem "Alive Like You," with "Prison Skin" I was taking this ideal a step further. Here the character puts this psuedo-self forward to hide the timid fragile ego and ends up being consumed by this personality. The true self becomes dangerously obsessed with this new skin and desires to become this person. Essentially this is a story about inner personal struggle of one's self awareness. Did I get too philisophical on you?

Love Shaped Hole

Cam has just uploaded the poem he wrote on his blog that I am using for the new single. Navigate  your way on over there for a sneak peak of the song.