“Right Now (feat. SAS)” by Charles Hull and Sean Beste | Song Premiere

 

   

photo of Silver Street's production facility design

words by Michael Todd

Certain syllables in "Right Now" don't bounce from one side to the other: They ricochet.

Like charged particles shot through an accelerator of headphones, a few chorus-borne words written by Silver Street's Charles Hull rocket themselves across the left and right channels. They mark the point when potential energy becomes kinetic.

For Hull, the song "Right Now," released on Monday, is an aural diary entry penned at a major turning point. Just after he had left his job as co-founder and Managing Director of Lincoln youth marketing agency Archrival. Hull says he was "gripped with the need to be creating something and really questioning my decision to leave the stability and stimuli of Archrival."

He planned on relaxing somewhere far away from Nebraska, but two weeks after quitting, feelings of anxiousness and boredom took over. "Right Now" finds Hull in that head space.

"It’s about being unable to enjoy a moment of success and calm — instead being gripped by paranoia that the other shoe is going to drop at any moment, and everything will come crashing down around you."

Hull produced three different versions of "Right Now" before he collaborated with Sean Beste of electropop project BZZZ. Hull says only then did he hear the "right sense of urgency and panic that really captured the mood I was in when I wrote the lyrics."

"It was working with Sean on producing this track that the idea for Silver Street and BZZZ really crystallized — so actually writing and producing this song led me through this sorta weird limbo I was in and brought me to starting up Silver Street and launching the BZZZ project with Sean, which has given me something to be focused on and passionate about again."

Listen to the song below:

featuring SAS
music by Charles Hull and Sean Beste
produced and engineered by BZZZ at Silver Street Sound
vocals: Charles Hull and SAS
bass: Darryl Rivers
guitar: James Fleege
tables: DJ Mello
mastered by Doug Van Sloun at Focus Mastering

Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska's managing editor. Reach him at michaeltodd@hearnebraska.org.