Trophy Eyes’ John Floreani Returns With Vulnerable New Track Following Long Hiatus
John Floreani, frontman of Australia punk outfit Trophy Eyes, is back with his first solo track in four years. The Kind of Man I am arrived on May 15, and is a vulnerable, lyric-driven ode to the beast that is life. Through life’s trials and tribulations, songwriting is at the forefront of what is most important to Floreani – and the single is a triumphant return.
JOHN FLOREANI SHARES:
“The Kind of Man I Am is one of those songs that came from just sitting with my guitar and searching for something, but without any expectations of finding anything at all. I think subconsciously I wanted to write a love song, but the way my brain works, I just never seem to come up with conventional ways of telling the story I want to capture — so in a way, it is a love song, but it is also an apology to the woman I love. Loving me is no easy task, and I know she will forever have to navigate around my rough edges to find the person she fell in love with, which I imagine is exhausting. It’s also a petty shift of blame for the pain we go through together. Blaming her for choosing me is just one of the millions of inner monologues I wrestle with daily, but is always quelled by the thought that if I love and respect her, then I must trust and respect her decision.
I tried to capture how slippery the mind is, and how subjective one’s reality is lyrically. Sometimes a thing you need can hurt you, and hurting is not always a bad thing. But the song, overall, is much more about my internal anguish of being a burden on the people I love, and the unhealthy narratives I tell myself to cope with that shame.”
About John Floreani:
With modern pop anthems, and stylistically portrayed as Johnny Cash dipped in Neon, John Floreani has emerged as one of this generation’s beautiful, flawed, and brutally honest storytellers. Blending pop, Americana, alt rock and folk, his music is eclectic in every sense of the word. While hitting career milestones as the frontman/singer of the top charting Australian rock band, Trophy Eyes, John Floreani built his musical portfolio, and now injects his most poetic stories between the lyrics of his solo music.
