Stream: Rows, ‘Something More’

Kevin Bronson on May 8th, 2018

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“Something More” is not just the title of the debut EP from Rows — and its closing song — but a mission statement from singer-songwriter Matt Couchois, the man behind the trio.

A lot has happened to Couchois in the past year-plus, including the demise of the band he previously played in, Max & the Moon. As he embarked on creating his own evocative songs, he sought to achieve more a batch of three-minute earworms. “The EP as a whole is the sum of all the things I grappled with during a specific period of my life,” he explains. “I didn’t want to just throw a few songs up online and call it an EP. I wanted this body of work to feel like a full-length record that had an arc and a story.”

So … “Something More.”

It’s a crisp, sugary track about bouncing back from a lousy relationship. “It’s easy to wallow in self-pity after a break-up, but the hardest part is learning to accept what was wrong and find the strength to move forward,” Couchois says. “I wanted the production of this song to bring to life exactly how moving on feels. To me, it’s like that first dive under a wave in the cold ocean. It’s painful for a second but you come out the other side feeling triumphant and wiped clean.”

The EP came out in late April via WAX LTD.

||| Stream: “Something More”