The path Gold Coast singer-songwriter Parker Sounds has taken to pursue his musical dream isn't your standard rock & roll story.
First picking up a guitar when he was 15 (to impress a girl), Parker had a short stint in the military post high school, before a career u-turn landed him at uni studying a Bachelor of Science degree.After graduating and then working as an ecologist, Parker has returned to his love of music after he secured a grant with the Scenic Rim Regional Council to record his debut album and "get my ideas out of my notebook and into the world".
The first taste of this recording process is the feel good, breezy rock-pop romantic number (with a hint of melancholy) 'Something Heavy', which Parker Sounds released at the end of February.
"The song was written to try and express the emotional interpretation of a relationship that didn't really ever get started," Parker says.
"It's the excitement of meeting someone new and the confusion of whether it was going to go to the next level or fizzle out, which it eventually did. The lyrics 'something heavy going down' is my way of describing the feeling of getting hooked on someone to the point where it starts interrupting your day."
Now Parker is ready to unleash the accompanying music video for 'Something Heavy', which was filmed on the Gold Coast at various locations.
scenestr is thrilled to premiere the clip today. Enjoy.
"I get so excited when I'm onto something new," Parker says, "that I'll often call someone up to sing it over the phone, even when it's only just a verse. Then I'll have a brainwave for a missing part and have to hang up super quick to test it.
"When I was writing 'Something Heavy', I called my producer Josh [Beattie] and played it over the phone, but it was missing the bridge.
"He asked me to play it again and I decided to improvise the bridge structure on the fly and right in that moment the song was finished."
