Cape Francis Releases Shares New Single 'Midnight Owl' Today
By: Sarah Jae Leiber Feb. 14, 2019
Following the announcement of his sophomore album Cape Francis (Kevin Olken Henthorn) is sharing the counterpart to his last single, "Button Up", with the gorgeous, spacious, unbridled happiness of "Midnight Owl" juxtaposing the former's ruminations on the soul-sucking day-to-day of corporate America. "Midnight Owl" begins, sonically, like those post-work moments, slowly shedding the suit and tie, coming into its own before fully opening up into pure joy, full of potential, a true escape from what inevitably comes back Monday morning. Speaking to the synthesis of these singles Kevin writes that ""Midnight Owl" is a companion piece to "Button Up". Originally written as one song, Ariel Loh (producer) and I, decided to split them up and let each one stand on it's own. If "Button Up" is about facing the realities of day to day monotony, "Midnight Owl" is about the freedom from that. It's a song about finally getting time to yourself, to work late into the night on something you love."
Late last year Cape Francis followed up 2017's debut LP "Falling Into Pieces" with a respite from the daily grind on the gritty pop tune "Nobody", another complimentary track that acts as an act of pure escapism, a moment to get your bearings and find yourself in the serenity of putting it all on hold and finding yourself some space.
Cape Francis is the solo project of Kevin Olken Henthorn, former singer/songwriter of Stone Cold Fox. After the break up of a band that worked heavily in traditional pop structures and production, Henthorn started the new project as a way to break form and reconnect to a natural flow of instrumentation and storytelling.
Henthorn started playing guitar when he was nine years old. He studied music with teachers ranging from classical to blues to metal, but by the time he was 15 he decided to commit solely to writing his material. For Henthorn, the writing was a way to learn and push his fundamentals and discovery became intrinsic to each new piece he wrote.
Cape Francis is meant as a way to return to that mentality, to re-approach a relationship with an instrument after years of feeling stuck in indie rock power-chords. Cape Francis pulls from folk and modern influences alike to bring the listener to a feel-good place where familiarity and discovery are both at the forefront.
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