McPOLAND’S HEART SKIPS A BEAT IN “SPEED OF THE SOUND (OF YOU)”

When you’re in love you start to tell jokes like your partner, (some say) look like your partner and spend so much time with them that your heart beats at the speed of the sound of theirs. If you’re falling in love this spring, Peter McPoland has just the song for you.

“Speed of the Sound (of You)” finds McPoland in a different space than his releases from the past year: in love. Both sonically and lyrically the song is more similar to his debut album Slow Down and pre-debut singles (especially “Lady Bird” and “I Love You Too”), than his hard alt-rock, electro-breakdown of an album, Piggy. While it’s a hard pivot and a more stripped down track than what newer fans have come to know, it shows how he has absorbed every piece of production knowledge along the way of his musical journey.

As McPoland experiments with love again he reflects internally and finds himself past the common talking stage embarrassments of “gushing on the phone” and quickly falling, realizing he’s “a slut in love with the speed of the sound (of you).”

In addition to the song, a video shot in McPoland’s childhood bedroom, done by friends Ryan Falcoa and Erik Nguyen, was put out. He leaves on a short tour of the midwest in six days.

The alt-electro-folky guitar backed track will get your heart beating, your body dancing and your mind thinking of the one that makes you blush.