Lana Nauphal – Sure As The Score

NYC-based indie folk artist Lana Nauphal unveils “Sure As The Score,” the beautiful new single from her debut LP, Wildland, out in May.

This languid, blues-y track is the emotional nadir of the album – a song about acceptance, letting go, and moving on. “It’s rock bottom,” she explains. “This song speaks to the exhaustion of being in love with a person who’s very difficult to be in love with, for whatever reasons– in my experience, this difficulty was enhanced by a substance dependency, so there’s that angle to it too. You realize you can’t go on with this person anymore, that they will never be who you need them to be, but you’re still hanging on, running in circles with them, making a mess of everything. You can’t let go, even if you know it’s time.”

Visually, Lana decided this song lives in a smoky bar. So that’s where she went to film the music video – her favorite neighborhood bar in Brooklyn. “We snuck in the same camcorder my dad used for our home movies growing up and filmed what we thought a typical night would be in this kind of difficult relationship: cycling through moments of apprehension, intimacy, and disconnect, all in the space of a couple of hours,” she says, “This never-ending loop, where a couple of fleeting moments of connection are so intoxicating, that you stay put the other 90% of the time, dealing with all their bullshit, in the hopes of finding that glimmer in them again– having that light shine on you again. But it’s not sustainable, and the light never shines for long enough, but you go on and on in this loop until maybe one night you have enough.”

Her gorgeous debut LP, Wildland, signifies heeding the call to fulfill one’s life purpose – inspired by love, then the unraveling that comes with heartbreak, Wildland was the glue Lana used to put her life back together.

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