LOONY, aka Scarborough, Ontario’s Kira Huszar, today shares “Counting Thunder” produced by great friends and Grammy nominated collaborators Akeel Henry (Jamine Sullivan, John Legend), Dan Farber (Lizzo) and Juno Award winner Adamjosh. It’s another masterfully crafted modern RnB hit from LOONY. Listen/watch “Counting Thunder” via AWAL HERE.

“Counting Thunder” boasts immediately boppy, pitch-shifted vocals where LOONY repeats the phrase “Butter in her hands I keep you sober, take you home But if you love to dance Live the life that you want,” with a poetic punch to set the mood for the song at large.

The music video for “Counting Thunder” lightheartedly illustrates the fact that life is absolutely absurd, and being in a committed relationship is possibly insane. You can get hurt at literally any moment in either.

Of the track, LOONY shares, “‘Counting Thunder’ is waiting for the storm to hit. You feel it coming before you even see it, because you’re always expecting it, constantly trying to calculate its proximity to you. You’re trying to control it, get it over with, and prevent yourself from getting hurt. I have a lot of anxiety, especially in relationships, and I think especially once you go through trauma you’re just waiting for the next bad thing to happen. But that’s just in all of life, in general. Things are always happening, and we apply meaning to it – it’s all random chaos and we all try to act so big and tough but we’re literally all afraid, all the time, and working so hard to try to control things. And I don’t know, it’s kind of funny, and tragic, and at the time I was writing it, it felt like such a personal song but now I don’t think it is. I think it’s one of my favorites, though.”

LOONY has come a long way from skipping musical theater classes in high school to make mixtapes in her basement: she has already gained fans at FADER, Complex, Line of Best Fit and more for her lush, earnest voice and has been featured on lauded Apple and Spotify curated playlists alike. From the outset of her 2018 debut EP, PART 1, through the 25 million+ streamed JOYRiDE and most recent, soft thing on which she worked with Adam Pondang and Noah ‘40’ Shebib protege Akeel Henry (Ty Dolla $ign, Jeremih, Jazmine Sullivan),  LOONY summons musical shades of gospel, jazz, hip hop, and R&B. As on “faceless” and “raw,” she recalls early Erykah Badu, The Roots, Alcia Keys, Sade, and peak-era D’Angelo in both their enigmatic funkiness and Huszar’s poignant mastery of vocal inflection. LOONY offers listeners revelatory, neo-soul-inflected pieces of her reality.