Morgan Paros returns. Shame is an undeniably strong emotion. The feeling can take our mind to dark places, threatening to trap us to the point where on some days, we don’t even recognize ourselves when we look in the mirror. But thankfully, love is stronger — a point that Morgan Paros drives home on her vibrant, explosive new track, ‘Twist The Knife.’
Morgan Paros – Twist The Knife
‘Twist The Knife’ is Paros’s sophomore single, following the strong success of her debut solo release ‘Last Straw’ earlier this year. But ‘Twist The Knife’ is a story that Paros has wanted to tell for a long time, one that first began with an unforgettable acoustic guitar riff while she was going through a divorce back in 2017.
However, it wasn’t until 2021, fueled by a lack of sleep on a flight home from tour (Paros has spent most of the last decade as a touring multi-instrumentalist and recording artist) that the rest of the track came to her. She came up with the lyrics and melody right there on the flight, and upon deplaning, made a voice memo of the song in a bathroom at LAX.
“I could not have written this song any earlier, and it wasn’t for lack of trying,” Paros says of the track. “This song is about radical honesty. The end of the line, hardest choices we must make, about jumping without knowing where you’ll land.”
‘Twist The Knife’ beautifully demonstrates the courage of vulnerability, speaking to the power that can be found in setting yourself free. Paros’s raw vocal abilities, on full display on the song’s energetic hook, are largely reminiscent of Florence Welch. And with production, mixing, and mastering from the Grammy award-winning team behind Harry Styles’s Harry’s House (Jeremy Hatcher, Matt Wolach, and Randy Merrill), this song is as sonically compelling as it is lyrically.
Paros says that in her wildest dreams, ‘Twist The Knife’ “lives on a headline festival stage at Glastonbury as the sun sets.” If her 2023 is any indication of what’s to come, we don’t think it’ll be long before she gets there.
‘Twist the Knife’ beautifully demonstrates the courage of vulnerability, speaking to the power that can be found in setting yourself free. Paros’s raw vocal abilities, on full display on the song’s energetic hook, are largely reminiscent of Florence Welch.
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