For Liza Lo, “Catch The Door” is a potent metaphor for the “complexities of disagreement” and the “fear of loving.” Especially when it comes to those closest to her.
“I wrote this song when I was in a very low state,” says the London-based singer/songwriter. “I’d been having this melancholic feeling for a couple of months, uncertain what it was. I sat down on a rainy April evening, and somehow the song and all the emotions came out.”
“Catch The Door” is the latest single from Familiar, Lo’s impressive debut, which is out January 31 via Gearbox. Familiar was produced by Jon Kelly (Kate Bush, Paul McCartney) at Damon Albarn’s Studio 13 in West London, and its unassumingly exotic indie-pop framework is informed by the 26-year-old artist’s upbringing in Amsterdam and Majorca, Spain. Throughout the album, Lo assumes the role of the weary traveler, fending off tragedy and finding fleeting moments of beauty as she grapples with the uncertainty of an itinerant life. With its two distinct movements—once insistent, the other resigned—“Catch The Door” is a microcosm of that circuitous route.
“Figuring out the structure of the song with the band was quite hard,” says Lo. “(Bassist) Freek (Mulder) and I sat on the studio floor for about an hour to try and glue the two parts together. We decided it’d be best if I sat in the room with my guitar with the rest of the band. We wanted to make sure the energy and drive between all our instruments was right—especially when we made it to the post-chorus, which is by far my favorite part to the song.”
We’re proud to premiere Liza Lo’s “Catch The Door.”
—Hobart Rowland
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