There’s a photograph at the centre of Jake Pattinson’s new single that tells you everything about how he works. It was taken on a messy night at a working men’s club near Doncaster, by the same person who inspired the song itself.
That’s the spirit ‘Part of Me’ was built in: real rooms, real people, nothing staged.
‘Part of Me’ sits somewhere between The Killers’ widescreen scale and the heartland storytelling of Bruce Springsteen, Sam Fender and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, all shimmering synths and driving guitars at 120 BPM. But the story is entirely Jake’s own. Written in the aftermath of a relationship, the song isn’t really about missing an ex. It’s about everything else that goes with them: their family, their local pub, a version of yourself that only existed in that world.
Jake traces the song back to specific moments, among them an unanswered Christmas Eve phone call and a chance encounter in a Harrogate pub with a man tied to his ex’s family, who passed away from cancer not long after. Both moments sit inside ‘Part of Me’ as the ghosts the song keeps circling back to.
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The Harrogate-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist recorded much of the track himself in his spare bedroom, with his friend Nuno Oliveira laying down drums in his own loft a few streets over. It’s a set-up that shows in the finished song, which carries a warmth and directness that studio polish tends to smooth away.
It’s Jake’s third standalone single, arriving with continued support from Jericho Keys at BBC Introducing Yorkshire & The Humber, Simon Pattinson at The York Mix, and Amazing Radio.
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