Gone West Drop “Slow Down” and Details About Their Album

New country assemblage Gone West, composed of singer + songwriters Colbie Caillat, Nelly Joy, Justin Young, and Jason Reeves, has debuted their newest single, “Slow Down.” Signed to Triple Tigers, this warm weather foreshadows follows the group’s first single “What Could’ve Been” and EP Tides. Yesterday morning on the TODAY Show, the band announced that their debut album Canyons will be released on June 12th featuring producers and songwriters such as Jamie Kenney, Liz Rose, Jimmy Robbins, Eric Arjes, Nathan Chapman, Alysa Vanderheym, Tom Douglas, and Summer Overstreet. “Slow Down” is the album’s exclusive first tasting and commencement of a new chapter.

The group’s four-part delicately, handcrafted harmonies pay homage to the track’s feel-good, coasting-down-the-highway sentiment. It’s an easy-listen love song, essentially biographical due to the fact that the band itself contains two couples. Young fluently inaugurates the vocals while Caillat smoothly rides his coattails coming in on the second part of the first verse. Buoyant electric guitar played by Vince Gill, fills the chorus as their memorable harmonies infatuate singing: “You make want to slow down // Baby, make it easy // I’ll take the long way around // Just as long as you’re with me // In a city full of neon burnin’ too bright, // Baby you’re my yellow light, // You make me want to slow down // You make me want to slow down // You make me want to slow down”

“Slow Down” has been an asset to the band’s live sets and band member Young detailed that it was written with songwriter and producer Jamie Kenney and was written four to five different ways in order to reach the final product. Watch the band discuss the song as well as their debut album in our most recent Swag Session below.

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“Slow Down;” is now available everywhere you buy or stream music. Take a listen below and check out more new recently released music here on our “New Country Playlist.” Be sure to give the playlist a follow for your weekly new country music fix.

“Slow Down” Lyrics

Lost in the buzz of a busy street, I never saw the leaves fall

Coffee to wake, it’s to minus sleep
But I don’t feel it at all
You’re like the wind rollin’ in on a summer blaze
Lazy river in the rapids I race
Just a minute layin’ next to you and time stands still
You make want to slow down

Baby, make it easy
I’ll take the long way around
Just as long as you’re with me
In a city full of neon burnin’ too bright,
Baby you’re my yellow light,
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down

We’ll take a walk after midnight, stay in bed until noon
Driving the curves of the coastline
And trace every inch of you
I like the rush when it’s us on a getaway
Soak it up, take it in at our pace
You know how to make my heart beat fast
And time stand still

You make want to slow down
Baby, make it easy
I’ll take the long way around
Just as long as you’re with me
In a city full of neon burnin’ too bright,
Baby you’re my yellow light,
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down
You make want to slow down

Baby, make it easy
I’ll take the long way around
Just as long as you’re with me
In a city full of neon burnin’ too bright,
Baby you’re my yellow light,
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down
You make me want to slow down

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