This song sounds like the bittersweetness between a faded memory of a lullaby and shedding a tear in your sleep. Suspended in an existential contemplation of time spent and storms weathered in the past, the delicate and deep risk of pushing his luck and refusing to ever give up.
Sonically, Genosky is a velvety and earthy descendant of the echoes of Bon Iver, Amber Run, and even some Hozier. “Pushing My Luck” has a tempo that feels contemplative while melancholic, with a sure and gentle knowing behind the lyrics and gentle folk crooning of Genosky.
As many good indie folk songs go, there’s a pensive gaze to a long road ahead without over-explaining what he means. The songwriting stays hand in gentle hand with the instrumentals. There’s a quality to the reverb that Genosky’s production uses to brush the canvas of his songwriting with a gorgeous and heartaching distance. Beautifully taking up a space of considerable introspection on holding to love despite the way love’s stacked, Genosky’s push feels like a gentle touch from someone reaching out in earnest and exquisitely moving sincerity.
Available to stream everywhere, “Pushing My Luck” by Genosky includes a visual that explains what words cannot. The aesthetics of the official visualizer include Genosky playing guitar amidst a moody oceanside, intercut with footage of timelapses of the tides and the way the light dances across the water he finds solace in. A nostalgic and personal touch, this is a fantastic way to get to know Genosky as you wade in the magical fleeting moment that is “Pushing My Luck.”
Genosky’s visualizer and the song itself say so much about what it’s about or how he navigates his life and his heart, but there’s a richness there he goes deeper into when talking about “Pushing My Luck” on a more personal level.
“‘Pushing My Luck’ is about giving your all to someone or something without knowing how you’re going to make it out on the other side. It’s about beating the odds, breaking patterns, and learning that you can choose what you believe in and who you become.
I grew up wanting to be anything but like my father. He was a scary man, and my relationship with him shaped a lot of the way I saw myself and the world around me. This song came from trying to separate myself from those patterns and realizing that where you come from doesn’t have to write the rest of your story.
Lyrically, it feels like an abstract step into my mind. Lines like ‘I’ve had my heart sewn / don’t break my bones’ carry the fear of being hurt again, while ‘I won’t let go until I’m gone‘ is almost a promise to myself to keep going. At its core, ‘Pushing My Luck’ is a self affirmation choosing hope, taking the long road, and continuing to give yourself fully to life even when you don’t know where it’s going to take you.” – Genosky
A truly talented young musician with a whole story ahead of himself to write, you can follow along as he tells it and shapes it in his own voice. Check out Genosky’s Instagram and Spotify for more.
Written by Samson Winsor
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