Nothing To Go Home To, Nothing There To Come Home For, No Home To Return To

Now that the album is out, we want to take the opportunity to guide you through the songs and give you some background info on all of them. Today: Nothing To Go Home To, Nothing There To Come Home For, No Home To Return To.

Previous:
➡️ Let Me Steer, As I Am the Bigger Captain
➡️ I Will Guide You Over Oceans and Across Troubled Lands
➡️ We Are All, In All Places, Strangers and Pilgrims, Travelers and Sojourners
➡️ Beyond Us, Only Darkness

The earliest version of this song (which sounds nothing, pun intented, like the final result) was based on an organ chord pattern. When we asked Niels to join the band back in 2015 we figured it would give us more space to experiment with piano and organ. But no: just more guitars. This song is a good example of that. Where there once was an organ you now hear two guitars making very ‘organy’ and ‘synthy’ sounds.

For each song of the album, we made individual artwork. All of them centered around the same theme and adhering to the same visual principles. Here’s the artwork for ‘Nothing’:

As with the cover art of ZWARTGROEN itself, all the images used are from the public domain Rijksmuseum archive. Here are all the original art pieces that we used:

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