Ferocious Designs, the DIY music project of central New Jersey-based songwriter Brian Kelley, has released an updated version of “Years Go By” as a single to mark the one-year anniversary of the music project’s debut EP, A Matter of Time. The track is available for download/streaming at FerociousDesigns.com.
The A Matter of Time EP was released on July 16, 2021. Its title comes from lyrics in “Years Go By,” which is one of two songs from the EP that has been reworked for the upcoming album, Looking for the Light.
“It was written in 2019 as my 30th high school class reunion was approaching,” said Kelley. “I’m kind of a nostalgic person by nature, but the last few years have really dampened my enthusiasm for a number of people from my past so that served as the lyrical inspiration for the song."
Looking for the Light, the debut album from Ferocious Designs, will be released later in 2022.
“Years Go By” features music and lyrics by Brian Kelley who does the vocals, keyboards, guitars, percussion and other instrumentation for the track as well. Video footage courtesy of Videezy.com
Ferocious Designs is the DIY music project of central New Jersey-based songwriter Brian Kelley. Although he has spent most of the past 30-plus years as a songwriting hobbyist, Kelley is not a complete stranger to the New Jersey music scene. He is a longtime collaborator with singer-songwriter Christian Beach, spending time with him during the late 1980s and early 90s in a band that played the much-loved and long-gone Green Parrot Rock Club in Neptune, NJ, multiple times. Kelley has played keyboards, accordion and percussion in Beach's backing band since 2007, and has recorded with him as well.
The project name is borrowed from the lyrics of “Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)” by Marillion. The debut, five-song EP from Ferocious Designs, A Matter of Time, was released on July 16, 2021. That same day, the project’s debut single, “Lay It on the Line,” was named Makin Waves Song of the Week by longtime New Jersey music journalist Bob Makin.
