Medium Build runs his heart and soul ragged in “Triple Marathon,” a breathtaking, brutally honest upheaval from singer/songwriter Nick Carpenter’s most intimate and vulnerable depths.
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Medium Build’s first (solo) song since this past spring’s Country is a beautifully gut-wrenching fever dream:
A heavy, hard-hitting outpouring of mixed emotions and inner turbulence that feels all-too fitting for this fall.
Simultaneously reckoning with himself and his relationships, “Triple Marathon” is a breathtaking, brutally honest upheaval from the singer/songwriter’s most intimate and vulnerable depths. It’s a raw, roaring eruption that aches from the inside out as Medium Build (AKA Nick Carpenter) searches for love, balance, approval, understanding, and – perhaps most importantly – a space where he belongs.
I’ve been making lists of things to do
when you come back to town
I’ve been getting super jealous
of the people you’re around
And I wish that I could breathe
you in and loosen up my grip
But not knowing when I’ll see you
next has got me acting cringe
Does it make sense how I need it?
When I’m blacked out, you’re a lighthouse
And it’s so basic, I just gotta face it
Does it make sense how I need it?
It’s true that finding your comfort zone often entails getting into some uncomfortable, maybe even undesirable situations, but everyone has limits to what they’ll endure and put up with – and it’s up to us to catch ourselves when we’ve gone a step too far.
Released October 4th, 2024, “Triple Marathon” is, in some ways, an instance of the mind pulling the heart back; of Carpenter viewing himself through a lens, and making the active choice to change his situation, hopefully for the better.
“‘Triple Marathon’ is about a relationship-situationship-friendship thing where I just felt so desperate for this person’s approval and love and time and attention,” Carpenter tells Atwood Magazine.
“I oscillated between feeling it was the best thing I’d ever had and thinking I was being used and abused and mistreated. I think we all end up in things that are confusing, grey areas of self-doubt. Never knowing if we’re setting boundaries or being an asshole, anticipating needs or being a doormat.”
“I still love this person and maybe it will work one day. Maybe it won’t. But the feeling was there and I wrote it down. It’s always funny to read my own lyrics to see how pathetic I was. You never know how someone feels, do you?”
You been getting really good
at telling me when I get dumb
It’s so weird to feel like someone
knows me, I guess this is love
And I’m sorry I was such a cunt,
I don’t know what to do
I would run a triple marathon
just to be close to you
Medium Build bleeds openly and unapologetically through two candid, emotionally charged verses and catchy, cathartic, and all-consuming choruses. He wears his heavy heart on his sleeve, roaring and reeling through the tension, letting it all out until there’s nothing left to say or do, but dwell in the emotional exhaustion.
It’s raw, and it’s real, and it’s why I’m continuously blown away by Medium Build’s music.
“Triple Marathon” is the lead single off Medium Build’s forthcoming EP Marietta, due out November 15th via slowplay/Island Records. Carpenter describes the EP – which is named after the town outside of Atlanta, Georgia, where he grew up – as a zoom out of his childhood, “extending grace to my family, to myself… I just wanna thank myself and my parents for surviving my childhood.”
Angsty and impassioned as ever, the next era of Medium Build looks to be filled with that same provocative, fiery fervor that was so pronounced throughout Country.
In exposing all parts of his heart and soul through song, Nick Carpenter is establishing himself as a once-in-a-generation voice and a truly singular singer/songwriter, with songs like “Triple Marathon” capturing not just his humanity, but his essence as an artist.
Does it make sense how I need it?
When I’m blacked out, you’re a lighthouse
And it’s so basic, I just gotta face it
Does it make sense how I need it?
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