There's No One New Around You

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There's No One New Around You
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EP by
ReleasedNovember 18, 2016
Genre Alternative, indie rock, indie pop
Length15:20
Label Rhyme & Reason Records
Producer pronoun
Pronoun chronology
There's No One New Around You
(2016)
I'll Show You Stronger
(2019)

There's No One New Around You (stylized in lower-case) is the debut studio EP from the American musician pronoun.

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The four-track EP was released on 10-inch vinyl, compact disc and digital download on November 18, 2016. Recorded in her Brooklyn apartment, There's No One New Around You was intended to be a full-length album, until finishing the song "Snowed In", after which, she notes "it just felt like [the record] was done." [1] [2] The album production, mixing, artwork and photography is by Pronoun. [2] The album title is based on an automated message from the social search engine mobile-phone application Tinder, and as Pronoun explains in an interview with City Pulse , after "scrolling through [...] and I reached the end and that's what it said. I thought, 'this is actually really beautiful, if you take it of context.'" [3] It is described as indie rock, post-punk and soft electronic filled with delicate, deeply personal tracks. [4]

The song "Just Cuz You Can't" is about a long-term relationship that she "thought would never end". [5] Its music video was directed by Sabyn Mayfield. [6]

Reception

For the song "Just Cuz You Can't", Stereogum writes it is a "driving and urgent rock song undercut by Vellturo's mumbled, passionate delivery," and Billboard calls it an "emotionally captivating track that channels the evolving timeline of a relationship."

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."A Million Other Things"3:48
2."Til Your Legs Give Up"3:49
3."Just Cuz You Can't"3:15
4."Snowed In // There's No One New Around You"4:28
Total length:15:20

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