Friday Night is the new single from Orbit, and arrives in tandem with his second EP, Summer Someday. Having traded the busy Berlin scene in 2020 for the relative calm of the North German countryside, musician and producer Marcel Heym found the inspiration to start Orbit, a new musical venture. Having spent years playing in bands with his brother, Heym wanted to bring together a mix of raw acoustic sounds and bright electronica, creating something that sits at home equally well with M83, Bombay Bicycle Club, Flume, and Disclosure.
Without relying on any conventional forms of promotion for his debut EP, Perspectives, Orbit has already accrued a total of four million streams and is generating an additional quarter of a million tuning in each month. With an active focus on the artistic community, Heym hopes to transcend the barrier that usually exists between listener and artist through streaming platforms, to create a deeper connection.
Friday Night has a gentle and sympathetic warmth — Marcel’s vocals feel close enough to be your own internal monologue, piano keys falling like infrequent raindrops all around you. Oscillating bass and crunchy drums provide a solid wall of sound that contrasts perfectly to the delicate melodies. The overall result was enough to stop me in my tracks when I heard it.
Friday Night ends with a beautiful collage of found sounds from nature and gentle melody, leaving me excited to hear where the EP picks things up. Describing the song and its inspiration, Marcel talks about a perfect moment of music and connection combined with introspection:
“I wrote this song about a scene in my life: Friday Night. The moon shines. Feeling sad and overwhelmingly good at the same time. Lovers. Loud music. Being lonely or in a crowd of people -- or both. Colorful strobe lights. All this melting into an ecstatic moment happening in one song.”
Check out the EP, Summer Someday, below, including Friday Night.