PREMIERE | Nyxy Nyx, "I Pine For Her"

Nyxy Nyx, aka Brian Reichert; press photo.

Brian Reichert, aka Nyxy Nyx, returns with news of the new album Spirit Exchange arriving March 6 via BLIGHT. Records, sharing a debut listen to the soul yearning and mind wandering "I Pine For Her". The Luna Honey collaborator curates his most intimate, earnest and vulnerable work yet where emotion is laid bare with a whole lotta heart stitched dearly on the sleeve. The artist's latest song cycle moves toward the places where psychic intuition and the soul intersect in that perpendicular sacred dwelling that designs everything from movements of feeling and the desires of the heart.

Nyxy Nyx’s “I Pine For Her” begins with lysergic chords that sparkle and reverberate like a late 60s art house flick involving motorcycles, hippies, burnouts, femme fatales and other dangerous liaisons. The track emerges like visions held over from a cryptic dream, a narration of the unconscious that paints facsimiles of forbidden unions and far-fetched bonds of otherwise unspeakable and untold romances. The pangs of pining for an aloof someone and the subsequent daydreams are spelled out into a fantasia of song that exists out of time and out of mind. “I Pine For Her” is a portrait of an alternate reality and existence that blends a sleepy sense of awareness that stands at the dream state threshold of everything — and yet nothing at the same time — that could have been (and could be).

Brian Reichert of Nyxy Nyx introduced us to the track with the following insights on inception and more:

pine

/pīn/

verb

verb: pine; 3rd person present: pines; past tense: pined; past participle: pined; gerund or present participle: pining

1. suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart.

I had a crush on a lady. I found myself going a bit cuckoo for her. It was a secret, forbidden cuckoo feeling that I quickly realized I would never be allowed to express. Thoughts of this lady consumed me and I began to wish I'd never met her. What do you do with a feeling that the world won't allow you to express? In my case, I wrote a cryptic song about it. "I Pine For Her" is the first of several songs written as a means of catharsis for my forbidden cuckoo feeling. The entire song was spewed out of the hopeless romantic glutton for punishment in me in a matter of minutes. The music and lyrics both appeared instantly from the ether. A basic skeleton rough stone track was sent up to Ben, Maura and Levi (Luna Honey) and they polished it into the jewel it is now. Now I get high off of it.

Spirit Exchange is really just a collection of tunes snagged right out of that ether. It just so happens that I didn't use any drugs during the process, so the tunes seem to have been plucked with a sense of clarity that is unusual for a Nyxy Nyx record. At least, that is how I feel about it. My thoughts and intentions around each song seemed to come into sharp focus very rapidly. They were also produced with very limited equipment in a foreign land (South Florida) so I did feel a need to weave simple poignant tales that could be easily recorded. I believe that focus is what sets this record apart from previous Nyxy Nyx releases. And of course, the songs that Luna Honey worked on enter a different realm altogether. I'm beyond excited to continue working with them.

Hope you dig Spirit Exchange and hope you're half as psyched as me for what's to come.

Nyxy Nyx’s new album Spirit Exchange will be available March 6 via BLIGHT. Records.