Kid With The Light's new music, "Shutdown," began with a poem. What began as a way to finally get something out that had been inside for years soon became something much larger. In a few days, that one song morphed into seven songs, one personal expression growing into a larger creative journey.
There is something hypnotic about the way a single idea can suddenly open a door to all that has been waiting behind it. "Shutdown" bears the history of that first poem, that moment when something that had been unsaid finally made its way onto the page. Sometimes writing begins as a release, with no larger plan in mind, only to reveal afterward just how much there was to say.
"Shutdown" has a particularly personal start, in that it became seven songs within days. That suggests the creative process that was needed to get out what had been held in too long. But the song became the beginning itself, rather than the story being forced into existence, so one thought led naturally into another until a whole collection began to take shape.
So "Shutdown" is more than a piece of music in this story. It's the start of a creative chain reaction, turning years of the unsaid into seven songs in just a few days. What started as one poem for Kid With The Light turned into a much bigger outlet. "Shutdown" tells the story of the moment that set that process in motion.