D.K. Lyons is a versatile creative merging songwriting, production, performance, and visual artistry. Inspired by the likes of The 1975 and Prince, he crafts pop rock with a focus on captivating visual narratives. The Manhattan-based artist values authenticity, drawing from personal experiences and influential women in his life. Notable releases include the debut EP “Blame My Astrology” in 2018 and the album “The Past (Romanticized)” in 2020, garnering critical acclaim. With over 125K Spotify streams, DKL’s music, featuring tracks like ‘When We Were Falling In Love’, encourages audiences to embrace joy, introspection, and dance.
His latest release is the fresh energy of the new single ‘I Can’t Do This Anymore (For Now)’, groovy distorted guitar chords and bass lines driven by a bouncy drum beat and laced with a wistful and heartfelt vocal performance. Glittery soundscapes soar from moment to moment as he reflects on the endless cycles of nights out and hangovers.
The single comes ahead of D.K.’s upcoming double concept SOPHOMORIC RAMBLING, which will be accompanied by a short film featuring D.K. Lyons as the writer, director and star.
D.K. Lyons shares an insight into the album, ”This album has been quite the incredible journey for me, as it started at a time where I had no idea what I was going to do next at the start of 2022. One day I was hit with the inspiration for The Girls of Summer, and then within a matter of days had written a number of other songs that I intended to be singles to bridge to my next project. But as I dove more into the material, a full album presented itself along with the concept about it being a therapy session, as I was trying to be the most raw, honest version of myself, touching on where my psyche was at, unearthing a lot of trauma and pain, and trying to find healthy ways to work through it. The album title is a reference to this, where I gave myself that freedom to ramble and be sophomoric, and obviously I loved the play on words with it being my “sophomore” album.
But with it being exactly an hour in length intentionally, the idea is to take the listener on a journey, starting at the 30K foot level of the world, social media, societal pressures, and then slowly digging down deeper as the album goes on and getting more and more personal before I sort of turn the corner and find clarity. Hope is also the key word that presents itself in so many of the songs, a feeling I really didn’t have while writing the album but aspired towards, and I think getting to this point where I am now with it coming out, hope is more bountiful in my life than when the process began.”