“Lenox Hill“ by Alwyn Morrison

“Lenox Hill” by Alwyn Morrison is a dreamy pop track with a compelling and heartbreaking narrative. Alywn Morrison, a talented singer-songwriter based in New York City, crafts a soundscape full of riveting rhythms and synth textures underneath lyrics about a past love that he is still desperately missing. Even though the relationship is over, Morrison can’t quite let it go, especially when he looks back at how good and fulfilling the beginning of the relationship was. With “Lenox Hill,” he brings the listener through those reflections with him, pulling at your heartstrings the whole time.

In the first verse, lines like “you kissed me and the stars became so bright” and “by the summer both our lives were intertwined” set the story up to feel like a love song. That first date infatuation is palpable in Morrison’s vocals, and the uplifting instrumentation prepares us for a feel good tune. But then, at the end of the chorus, the gut punch of the line “how I miss those nights, just us in Lenox Hill” reveals that the relationship is actually over. 

The music video mirrors the narrative in the song, and we watch a fresh couple begin to fall in love. They meet in the cold and grow close by the summer, but then we start to see their tension growing and their smiles fading. Growing apart is a fairly common phenomenon, but that doesn’t make it any less painful, and the visuals of this crying couple and a grief-stricken Morrison makes the song hit even harder.

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