After a four-year absence, NYC-by-way-of-Philly songwriter Grant Pavol returned in January with what would become the first of three EPs released in 2025. College gave way to Left That Party back in May, and today he’s announcing that the third installment in this series is called Save Some Time, and that it’ll be out next Friday. In the meantime, he’s shared the project’s lead single and title track, a meditation on the stress of always seeming to be in a time crunch. The track itself is slowly paced and relaxed, with Pavol’s sleepy vocals competing with Cale-esque electric guitar and a twanging acoustic guitar that nearly sounds like the deep peal of an old grandfather clock.
“This track is all about rushing—to catch the train, make it to an appointment, etc., but also about rushing through life in a broader sense,” Pavol shares. “I wrote it while I was finishing up college and preparing to move to the famously hectic New York City. I felt like I had way too much on my plate, and that I had to watch my time like a hawk to keep on track. It was exhausting, and I wound up feeling tense and miserable all the time. I found that I was worrying about getting to the next place without taking in the place I was at the moment. Now that I’ve lived in NYC for almost three years,” he continues, “and my life is broadly more stable, I’ve learned how to extract myself from these cycles before they get too bad, but I still slip from time to time.”
The song’s music video was directed by Nara Avakian of Nara’s Room, and it sees the song’s loose folk structure recreated with an equally lo-fi visual. “The video is a pretty simple visual metaphor for this conceit,” Pavol adds. “When I was working on it with Nara, we decided it would be a little too trite to stick to the obvious direction of having the clock chasing me, so we flipped it into a sort of meeting or negotiation. I suppose it’s about the sacrifices we make (or don’t make) to stay on top of ourselves and our responsibilities.”
Check out the video below, and pre-save the Save Some Time EP here.
