“Na Lua” launches us on a journey between the real and the imaginary.
This song invites the listener to take their feet off the ground and roam the ends of their thoughts, a free place where there is space to jump, dance and sing and where the vast uninhabited terrains make us rethink and restrict our concerns to the essential.
There are no incomes to delay, no gravities to weigh us down or water to dehydrate us. There is no sunset, but the sunset of the earth.
This new single comes with a video clip shot in Lisbon and directed by Nuno Serrão (Urbanistas). The video represents this journey between the real and the imaginary, where the protagonist is completely immersed in the song, from the moment she puts on the headphones. It then becomes a matter of time until you give in to imaginary orders and follow the path he tells you.
Senso Comum
Senso Comum is the first album recorded in the studio of Men On The Couch published in October 2019. After several years of playing together, the Madeiran band decided to venture into BlackSheep Studios in Sintra to eternalize the songs accumulated in the drawer. Thus was born Senso Comum, the first record work of the band, which carries all the happiness, disappointments, thoughts and theories that kids of 23 years may have. On this trip, Guilherme Gomes, João Rodrigues, Tiago Rodrigues and Francisco Sousa come to show that Madeira is not just Poncha and Cristiano Ronaldo.
After the release of the first single from the album “Se eu morresse amanhã”, the band comes to reveal other facets of their musicality, with some calmer songs and others to shake their hips even more. Throughout the 11 tracks on the album, 2 instrumental tracks, 8 tracks sung in Portuguese and 1 track sung in English, Men On The Couch cover various themes in the common domain of our society, with light and easy to digest lyrics where the listener has space to laugh, cry, dance, shout and reflect to the sound of the band’s characteristic melodic guitars.
After the first original songs recorded in an amateur way, they decided to abandon English and quickly realized that it was the right decision. By writing the lyrics in their mother tongue, Men On The Couch managed to find a more natural and obvious way to express themselves in their music. With great influences of English and Portuguese Pop Rock and Brazilian Popular Music, the Madeirans give the public 43 minutes of original and refreshing themes.
The album cover is a clear reflection of the songs. Each track is a story, and each track is associated with an illustration. The merging of all the illustrations results in the album cover.
Men on the Couch are a band of the new generation of music from Madeira and have been together for more than half a decade. Before, there were only 4 friends doing whatever the kids did at that time until one day they felt the electricity of their first chords in the darkness of the sofa in Dona Zita’s basement, and since then they haven’t stopped….
