{"id":663153,"date":"2026-11-01T00:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663153\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:12:17","slug":"paul-smith-shares-new-song-lay-your-head-down-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/663153\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Smith Shares New Song &#8220;Lay Your Head Down&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, Max\u00efmo Park released their eighth studio album Stream Of Life. Today, frontman Paul Smith is sharing &#8220;Lay Your Head Down,&#8221; his first solo material in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lay Your Head Down&#8221; was co-produced with Field Music&#8217;s David Brewis, and it features Kathryn Williams on vocals and Ed Cross on violin. &#8220;&#8216;Lay Your Head Down&#8217; is a pleading lullaby, written with my daughter in mind, but it applies to anyone who needs some peace of mind,&#8221; Smith says. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s one of the prettiest songs I&#8217;ve written, but there are a couple of darker moments hinting at disquiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song is as fragile and serene as an acoustic ballad could be. Smith and Williams&#8217; voices weave together into hypnotic harmonies, and the beauty is heightened when the violin slowly seeps in. Listen below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2516173\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Paul-Smith-Photo-credit-to-Ivan-Jones.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>Ivan Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, Max\u00efmo Park released their eighth studio album Stream Of Life. Today, frontman Paul Smith is sharing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-663153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}