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'Hold You Up' is a single written and performed by Australian singer-songwriter Timberwolf. Released on 16th March 2017, 'Hold You Up' is lifted from Timberwolf's highly anticipated debut full length album due for release in 2017.

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Song notes, by Chris Panousakis (Timberwolf):-

"I wrote Hold You Up the day after I made a phone call to end a long distance relationship with a beautiful dancer from Wellington in New Zealand, and I wasn't in any kind of mood to write. I felt sick in the stomach that I had just let someone and myself down, that I had let love down. At that time my voice was feeling horrible too. I was taking steroids every day just to be able to string a few notes together, and the side effects would make me an unenjoyable person to be around. I was in denial about my voice, on-edge and impatient, and I had this really intense low back pain. At that point I hadn't really come to terms with that fear surrounding losing my voice either. Regardless, I had kind of bottomed out in Newcastle, at The Grove.

I remember timidly walking to the breakfast table to tell Jackson there's no way I could muster the energy write a song today, and that we should start thinking of other ways to spend our time. And because Jackson is a compassionate guy he said sure, but before we knew it we were deep in this really freeing conversation about hip hop drums, and how there are no rules in music, kind of romanticising how fun it would be to get out of any sort of routine and just try and collage a few genres. Kind of like a 'who says 12 string acoustic guitars don't belong with hip hop drums' vibe. I just remember enjoying that conversation so much that it cheered me up. Moments like that are the enchanting or addictive parts about music I think.

The rest of the day kind of felt like I got possessed, and the song wrote itself from the first chords to the last vocal take. All of the emotion from the last month had just come pouring out and writing Hold You Up changed my life. It marks the first time I was able to admit to myself that I had spent the last two years living in fear and self-preservation, especially in love. Plucking up the courage to admit that to myself and the soul on the other end of the phone is the emotional journey I tried to mimic in this song. Kind of this prickly goo tango between pain and growth, where neither can kind of exist without the other...

After that 24 hour experience, I realised that the most virtuous kind of song-writing isn't about going inside yourself, it's about getting outside of yourself, and I was so moved by that feeling that I actually scrapped a whole album previous to this one on the premise of 'that's how I want to write songs'.

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