Nashville based pop/alt band, Nox Holloway have released their emotional new single, “Orbit” today. Written and produced by the band themselves, “Orbit” reflects on the feeling of not wanting to lose touch with someone you care about and feeling okay with merely staying in their orbit. Listen to it now below.
About the song, guitarist and percussionist Parker Mathews says, “‘Orbit’ is written around the central idea of not losing touch with someone, and how the connection with that person is so strong that it feels gravitational in the day-to-day of it. The astral themes are consistent in lyrics, track, and video, which we hope gives this single a strong cohesiveness any way it is consumed.”
The duo has had a steady rise since the release of their debut EP, If Only The World Didn’t Spin So Much, in 2021. The debut earned rave reviews from the likes of Rolling Stone Australia and Wonderland who hailed them “a fresh alt-pop duo wanting to bring people into their world of music.” The EP has garnered 2 million streams since its release with tracks featured on coveted playlists such as New Music Friday, Fresh Finds, Fresh & Chill and New Noise. The duo was also featured on Spins on MTVU TV.
At every turn, duality fuels Nox Holloway. Alternating between the radiating vibes of a sun-soaked midday festival slot and the kinetic energy of a packed club, the Nashville-based alt/pop duo live the push and pull through every note of their shape-shifting sound.
Bryce Vanhook and Parker Mathews met on their very first day of college at Clemson University, but it wasn’t until their senior year in 2020 that the pair of audio technology majors began truly collaborating, swirling Vanhook’s love of free-flowing hip-hop with Mathews’ expansive musicality and EDM-rich pop production style. They found that together they had all the skills they needed to write the kind of songs that previously only existed in their imaginations. The two-piece turned their focus full-time to their music and established themselves as Nox Holloway, a name that is a special tribute to time lost elsewhere. It’s a combination of the Latin word for ‘night’ and the street in London where Bryce lived and found inspiration.