- 2025-03-12
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MUSIC
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Dermot Kennedy Premieres New Song “Let Me In” on BBC Radio 1
Irish singer-songwriter Dermot Kennedy premiered a new song “Let Me In” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is his first solo music in a year since the EP “I've told the trees everything”.
As the single, the track follows the collaborative song “Above the Clouds of Pompeii” with Bear's Den, which was released in September 2024.
He recorded the song with producer Gabe Simon in Nashville.
Dermot Kennedy said of the song, “'Let Me In' is a song about the struggle to find true happiness, and the people and places that have brought me closest to it in my life. I wrote it on the first day I got to Nashville last summer. I hadn't written a song in a while, so it felt like I captured something I had been trying to say for a long time. I hope you love this one.”- Dermot Kennedy told Jack Saunders about the song, “I think this song, for me, the meaning is very important. I think it's about making sense of the last seven, eight years, the journey I had through music, I guess, about trying to find some kind of actual internal happiness, as opposed to just chasing dreams. Trying to find something that settles me.”
He continued, Last summer, “I went to Nashville to write for the first time. I'd been there a bunch of times for gigs and all that, but I went for the first time to write, and this song was day one, and I hadn't been in the studio for a long time. And so I just felt like I had this renewed enthusiasm. And it's an interesting song for me, because usually I sing a song hundreds of times, and you make sure you hone in on every single thing about this one. I think those imperfections and those flaws, it's just not something to kind of run from, you know. And I think in music nowadays, we polish it and polish it to the point that the feeling in it can be diluted or damaged or something like that. And so I just wanted to leave it alone.” -
He added, “I think there's just two different versions of it. You know, for such a long time for me, it was attached to kind of if I played in this room, I'd be happy. If I reached this milestone, I'd feel some kind of thing. And of course, you do feel a certain degree of happiness, but it's quite surface level. So I think it's just about me trying to figure that out for myself.”
Photo by Joel Stagg - source : BBC Radio 1
