05 October 2021 - 0 Comments

Luke Buda (he/him) is a songwriter based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). Buda’s music finds influence in the warm strums that emanated from Laurel Canyon in the 1960's, the dreamy vocals of supreme 1970's soft rock and disco, and the digital delays and drum machines wafting out from the UK in the early 1980's. In this work, he locates the sweet spot between introspection and wry humour.

Today he shares Who Would Want To Be Lonely, the third single from his upcoming album Buda (out October 15).

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Much like his previous single Candy, Who Would Want To Be Lonely was an exercise for Buda to completely indulge in pure songbook-style composition. The tracks' soaring synths were dreamt up while walking through Aro Valley, and the phrase Who Would Want To Be Lonely was discovered while searching through old voice memos.

The jangle of Luke’s guitar track is echoed in 'Panic on the Streets of Springfield', a recent episode of The Simpsons where Bret McKenzie (Flight Of The Conchords) asked Buda to contribute to the song Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You) by Quilloughby feat. Lisa Simpson.

In October Buda will release his third solo album (his first in twelve years), a collection of songs mostly recorded in his garage over the last three years. The lyrics are a mix of Buda's sincere but sardonic musings about feeling old and tired and anxious about everything, and words supplied by New Zealand novelist Damien Wilkins, all set to the kind of melodies that you could find while channel surfing through radio stations on a long midnight drive.

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