Selken “Love Me Like You Do”
Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of Selken’s song “Love Me Like You Do” from their forthcoming album The Winds set for release in the next few months. This song will be available on June 27th. The album was produced by JG Shadid and Heather Styka; mixed by Colin Sipos at Chase St. Sound in Nashville; and mastered by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana. It was recorded at Gentle Bear Studios in Chicago, with cover design by Tim DeCosta and photography by Cory Dewald.
“Love Me Like You Do” is Heather Styka on vocals and guitar; JG Shadid on vocals, guitars, synth, and piano; Jake Hawrylak on drums; and Colin Sipos on additional percussion.
It’s such a large part of our human relationship patterns nowadays for there to be something wrong to complain about. So what do we do if everything is simply all right? We’ve built up so many walls and defenses – how does it feel when it’s just open and easy? Selken explores the realization that a healthy relationship just might need to be consciously embraced, and that we might not have a fallback way to “be” under these conditions. It’s an honest notion to consider. The percussion style here adds a layer of earthy bounce as the exploration vibe carries the song.
This song is about how novel it is for me to experience a relationship without any toxic or controlling behavior. Unadulterated happy love songs, for me, usually come off a little delusional. Heartbreak is so much easier to write from an honest place. What do you do when you’re faced with a genuinely healthy relationship — no push-pull, no desperate longing or yearning or betrayal or red flags? So instead I just complained about how my partner is a terrible muse. – Heather Styka
Find more details here on her website: http://selkensongs.com/about
Enjoy our previous coverage here: Heather Styka’s “Chelsea Motor Inn”