Cut Flowers Capture Bittersweet Reflection and the Beauty of Regret on New Single

Cut Flowers emerge with “Until It’s Time” – a rollicking and heartfelt meditation on impermanence, regret, and making amends. Rooted in pastoral harmonies and driven by vibrant, live-off-the-floor energy, the song blends the ache of folk storytelling with the grit of vintage rock and soul.

“It’s a song about regretting not being there for people you love when they need you,” says vocalist Kevan Byrne. “And sort of trying to make amends before we die — saying this time I’ll be there for you, and will stay there until it’s time for me to go.”

Inspired by the timeless melancholy of 60s and 70s British folk and the raw earthiness of contemporary American folk-blues artists like Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Until It’s Time” finds its own space between promise and resignation.

The song was written in an unusual tuning — a discovery that unlocked its distinctly open, ringing sound. “I read about something called a black key tuning that Curtis Mayfield used for a lot of his songs,” Byrne recalls. “I put my guitar into that tuning and right away I was struck that I had no idea how CM was getting chords and voicings out of it for songs like ‘Move On Up.’ But it was great for chiming, droning stuff in the key of G. That’s the tuning I used to write ‘Until It’s Time.’ In the end you can play the song in standard tuning with basic cowboy chords. But sometimes you have to get outside your habits to hear a tune differently.”

Adding to that texture is a stand-out melodica part by Al Okada, whose contribution became central to the song’s sonic identity. “It’s such an unexpected timbre for a track like this,” Byrne says. “The voicings Al uses are kind of dissonant and melodic at the same time — sweet and sour, which is where we like to live.”

With its folk-driven harmonies, high-energy guitars, and minimal overdubs, the band intentionally kept the recording process raw and immediate. “We wanted to preserve the high of that initial experience when the song first came together,” Byrne explains. “So we set up close to each other to reproduce the experience of a live band as much as we could.”