This amazing song “Homesick (pt. 2)” by Alex Di Leo is one of the best songs we’ve heard recently! The minute we heard this song we couldn’t get it out of our heads! We got stuck on Alex’s soulful vocals! Alex has a rich voice and his lyrics are honest and original. The melodies and lyrics of this song are so catchy and mesh together perfectly, and the chorus is beautiful. Alex Di Leo is a skilled singer-songwriter and he shows so much talent in this song. The production work is smart and professional which brought this song to a new whole level. This song is a unique experience from start to finish! We hope you love it as much as we do!
WHAT THE ARTIST SAYS ABOUT THIS SONG:
“I wrote Homesick while I was on the road during my Summer ‘19 tour. I was going through some tough and confusing times mentally, and this song helped me realize that sometimes home isn’t a physical place or person. Sometimes home is a place within yourself that you’re longing for.
This is a new version of the song I made while quarantining in my apartment in Nashville, TN . The original was released during fall of 2020. To me, this one feels a little more personal and intimate.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
For singer/songwriter Alex Di Leo, 2019 was a nonstop whirlwind that radically altered his perspective as an artist. After moving to Nashville from his Southern Florida hometown, the 23-year-old musician found himself thrown into an endless cycle of eye-opening experiences and occasional bad choices, relationship struggles and wild new adventures (including one massively life-changing skydiving trip). While touring around the country with artists like Max Frost and Cody Lovaas, Di Leo created a new batch of music that channels all that chaos and self-discovery into beautifully detailed yet hard-hitting pop songs, ultimately offering up his most powerful work to date.
Made with producers/songwriters like Zack Djurich (Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign, Thirty Seconds To Mars), Di Leo’s latest output echoes a certain tension within his emotional life, a conflict he refers to as “being torn between young and reckless and a hopeless romantic.” To that end, his new music adds a moody alternative flavor to the laid-back coastal-pop sound he’s long embraced—all while introducing an element of heart-on-sleeve storytelling influenced by his recent exposure to country music in Nashville. In building that dynamic, Di Leo brought a new level of spontaneity to his songwriting and performance, instilling each track with the same warm and electrifying energy he’s shown in sharing stages with such artists as Barns Courtney and X Ambassadors.
On the spellbinding single “Youth,” Di Leo reveals his newly heightened ability to capture complex feelings in perfectly crafted pop music. With its mesmerizing textures and heart-melting melodies, the achingly confessional track was largely inspired by a skydiving trip Di Leo took with Lovaas in June. “I’ve definitely had a different mentality since then,” says Di Leo. “I was so scared to jump, but it ended up sparking this sense of adventure in me, and I really took that to the limit.” Laced with dreamy electric-guitar riffs and lower vocal tones than Di Leo’s ever attempted before, “Youth” candidly examines how that shift in mindset impacted his relationship. “It was a really confusing and darker time in my relationship and all those feelings just came out in the moment as I was writing ‘Youth,’” he says.
