{"id":24293,"date":"2015-07-17T16:36:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T00:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24293"},"modified":"2015-07-17T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T04:57:08","slug":"love-song-of-the-weeksummer-let-it-grow-by-maximum-balloon-ft-karen-o-and-tunde-adebimpe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-07\/love-song-of-the-weeksummer-let-it-grow-by-maximum-balloon-ft-karen-o-and-tunde-adebimpe\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Song of the Week\/Summer:  &#8220;Let It Grow&#8221; by Maximum Balloon (ft. Karen O and Tunde Adebimpe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560.jpg\" alt=\"maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/maximumballoon-letitgrow-560x560-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Producer\/musician <strong>Dave Sitek<\/strong> (<strong>TV On The Radio<\/strong>) has had a solo project entitled <strong>Maximum Balloon<\/strong> since 2010&#8217;s album debut.\u00a0 <strong>Maximum Balloon<\/strong> (on <a href=\"http:\/\/federalprism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Federal Prism<\/strong><\/a>) is now back with a phenomenal new love song and an avowed album.<\/p>\n<p>This lovely song,<em><strong> Let It Grow<\/strong><\/em>, may end up joining the wedding-song pantheon. It features the crystalline vocals of sultry <strong>Karen O<\/strong> and <strong>TV On The Radio&#8217;s<\/strong> stentorian<strong> Tunde Adebimpe<\/strong> doing what they do best.\u00a0 Listen below.\u00a0 It just floats over you while <strong>Sitek<\/strong> continues to baste on the shimmering sounds to the song&#8217;s end.\u00a0 Like a <strong>Maximum Balloon<\/strong> ought to.\u00a0 &#8216;Tis lovely.\u00a0 The lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/214103515&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Let It Grow<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna need another one<br \/>\nCause I only ever really feel like me<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m with you<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wanna need another one<br \/>\nCause I only ever wanna be myself<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m with you<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wanna see another one<br \/>\nCause I only ever wanna look one way<br \/>\nAnd that&#8217;s at you<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t wanna hear another word<br \/>\nCause I&#8217;m only gonna feel one way<br \/>\nIf I can&#8217;t stay with you<\/p>\n<p>From a tree a forest grows<br \/>\nIt could turn into anything<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ok to let it grow<br \/>\nLet it grow into everything<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be the one who goes and fades and fades away<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t wanna be<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want to be another memory<\/p>\n<p>Gonna bring the heat when the winters come and ease the pain<br \/>\nGonna bring the sun<br \/>\nRise and set with you everyday<\/p>\n<p>From a tree a forest grows<br \/>\nIt could turn into anything<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ok to let it grow<br \/>\nLet it grow into everything<\/p>\n<p>Look outside at what&#8217;s become<br \/>\nNo we&#8217;re not tired<br \/>\nWe can try for eternity<\/p>\n<p>Look outside at what&#8217;s become<br \/>\nNo we&#8217;re not tired<br \/>\nWe can try for eternity<\/p>\n<p>From a tree a forest grows<br \/>\nIt could turn into anything<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s ok to let it grow<br \/>\nLet it grow into everything<\/p>\n<p>I wanna be the one you love<br \/>\nI just had to let it grow&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer\/musician Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio) has had a solo project entitled Maximum Balloon since 2010&#8217;s album debut.\u00a0 Maximum Balloon (on Federal Prism) is now back with a phenomenal new love song and an avowed album. This lovely song, Let It Grow, may end up joining the wedding-song pantheon. It features the crystalline vocals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}