“Bad Thing Go”: New single from Martin & The New Songrise
Happy to present the very first single from the band outfit “Martin & The New Songrise.”
The lyric to “Bad Thing Go,” co-written by Martin with Søren Skov, Linda Andrews, revolves around the darker sides of romantic love, when relationships go awry from disrespect and abuse of trust.
However, you could hear this song even as a comment on world affairs, when nations struggle to make themselves independent of partners that have turned bad, making the ongoing relationship strained or even toxic.
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In the lyric, we move from being strapped to the carnival ride following a head over heels love affair (“we set this thing in motion / I’m gonna ride this rollercoaster down”) to the toxicity of having fallen in love with a player (“I drank from your well, babe / you’re in my marrow and in my bone”), yet the singer finds himself unable to let a bad thing go.
“Bad Thing Go” uses a first-person lens to bring the listener at eye-level with the fallout of bad love. The instrumentation on “Bad Thing Go” signals Motown and Muscle Shoals influences, yet the track sits squarely in Chris Stapleton or Leon Russell territory, featuring vocals which incorporate both a sensitive folksy vibe but also fiery rock- and blues-infused vocal work.
Martin who fronts the new outfit Martin & The New Songrise, is a seasoned singer and songwriter with several albums out in his own name, and The New Songrise is a band with alternating personnel that has come together to record a series albums drawing on this work. “Bad Thing Go” is the 1st single from their first album installment entitled “Clouds & Silver Linings” – which will be released June 5, 2026.
Get on board towards The New Songrise; check out the first stop – “Bad Thing Go”!
Been to the preacher, baby / he says I’m way more lost than found / High on your poison / I’m running my soul into the ground
It’s me and my high hopes / Just can’t let a bad thing go / Can’t let a Bad Thing Go…
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GAFFA music magazine writes about "Freedom Is a State of Mind"
“One of the songs on the album Songs in the Key of CollaboraRon, the arRsRc PhD product, was cowritten with South African Justine Hansen, who grew up in a home with illness and financial problems, where she was the oldest child in a large sibling group.
– “She grew up with this enormous sense of duty to make sure her five siblings get through their childhood unscathed. When you are shaped by that, it is also the prism through which you see the world, says Martin Høybye. Today, Justine Hansen lives in the more affluent neighborhood of Constantia, as she managed to get an education and subsequently start a business with her husband. Martin Høybye says that Justine Hansen called her home a “sanctuary” – a place where she was able to breathe and where the door is open if others in the family need a roof over their heads.<
The story of such a sanctuary is featured in the song “Freedom is a State of Mind”, which is released today. The song highlights the fact that we need to make sure we protect the places where we can breathe – especially in today’s high-speed world. According to Martin Høybye, the song’s narrative symbolizes both the outer and inner sanctuaries:
– It is a call to protect places where we can be ourselves – whether they are tangible or more indefinable. Protecting them from being slowly taken over amidst the interconnected crises that characterize our time,” he explains.”
“Where the Water Was”: New single about water, colonialism, and climate justice
“Where the Water Was” written by Martin Høybye and Casper Ace in Cape Town. Connecting the mindset behind the inequities of the past to social and environmental transgressions in the present, our song calls for an awakening of care and connection.
The songwriters feel that if we can retrain ourselves to take care of water, in all its forms, we may simultaneously learn to address the challenges of environmental crises in constructive ways. Therefore “water” is used both as a physical, political, and metaphorical reference throughout the lyric.
“Where The Water Was” sings a story of the impact that the first permanent European settlement at the Western Cape in South Africa had on the indigenous inhabitants, the Khoi and the San peoples. The consequences left a legacy still felt by their descendants, and by extension the descendants of many others living with the repercussions of colonialism at the Cape today.
Using Cape Town as a lens, a resilience and a resourcefulness inherent in indigenous knowledges are highlighted in the song. It proposes that an awareness informed by these knowledges may further greater harmony with nature and each other in the present.
Listen to “Where the Water Was” here: https://hoybye.lnk.to/water
“End of the World” calls out Big Oil
We are proud to present the single “End of the World.” Written by Martin Høybye this song is dedicated to Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier and other youths and children that fight a grown-up’s climate battle.
It deals with the structural violence committed against people and planet by Big Oil over the past many decades. And it dwells on the fact that those most responsible for perpetuating and proliferating the lies about the harmful consequences of fossil fuels have profited exorbitantly from these lies, while others are left to foot the bill in terms of their own and the planet’s heath.
Stream “End of the World” on all platforms: https://hoybye.lnk.to/end
With “End of the World, we root for Autumn Peltier, Greta Thunberg, and for all youths that strive to be part of solutions to the biggest problems of our time.