Parcels member Noah Hill is going it alone.
Hill has dropped his debut solo single, “It’s All in My Head”, out now via Because Music (listen below).
The song was written over the Christmas period at Hill’s family home in the Northern Rivers of NSW, during a disorientating period of his life, in which a relationship ended and he battled a health scare.
“It felt like the rug had been pulled out from under me,” Hill says. “I sort of fell apart.”
Even being on even ground with Parcels, who were in the middle of their biggest year of touring at the time, felt suddenly uncertain. “Whether that extreme lifestyle on tour would be sustainable for me, started to feel like a real question,” he adds.
What emerged from that time is a song about trying to calm a racing mind about fear, and how uncertain life can seem when you’re stuck inside your own anxiety.
Hill admits that he “worked very hard” on his debut solo effort.
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“It was a true battle, which makes sense, because I was battling my mind at the time,” he says of the song, which he produced and mixed entirely by himself.
Watch the accompanying music video, filmed in Sydney and co-directed by Hill and longtime friend Cai Leplaw, below.
“When the time came to visually represent these songs, there was no better person to help tell the story,” Hill says.
Arriving alongside today’s single is news of headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne next month, with further shows scheduled for the UK, US, and Europe this September.
Parcels (and Hill) fans can catch him at Sydney’s Unholy Playhouse on Wednesday, July 22nd, followed by the Wesley Anne in Melbourne on Friday, July 24th. Ticket information is available here.
Noah Hill’s “It’s All in My Head” is out now via Because Music.
