Amigo the Devil Unveils Song About His Devastating House Fire

Amigo the Devil has released the new single “A New Kind of Lonely,” a song about the dark-folk troubadour’s devastating house fire in June that destroyed just about everything he owned.

As previously reported, Amigo, aka Danny Kiranos, lost everything in the blaze, including his personal history: original artwork, handwritten lyric books, decades of demos, a vast collection of curiosities, and family keepsakes. Tragically, his girlfriend Abbey’s dog, Kobe, also perished.

The heart-wrenching and contemplative acoustic number is an intensely personal reflection on what transpired and Amigo’s reconciliation with the losses he suffered in the months that followed. The singer/songwriter offered the following statement via his publicity team:

“‘A New Kind of Lonely’ was written after the house fire, during interludes of putting a (figurative) revolver against my temple, eventually reminding me that I hadn’t lost everything at all. In fact, the only lasting thing I had truly lost was my idea of what the future would look like. Everything else was eventually going to go away on its own someday.

It brought a new sense of gratitude and clarity to everything. My ego, feeling like I had failed myself and everyone else, hid all the tools the world had given me, making it feel impossible to navigate unfamiliar roads without the creature comforts and ‘stuff’ I was used to being surrounded by — stuff that felt like my legacy.

‘A New Kind of Lonely’ is the sudden and rewarding realization that it’s okay to move forward without the plans and collections I treated only as my future, without ever enjoying them in the moments on the way there.”

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See the single artwork featuring Kiranos’ own painting and stream “A New Kind of Lonely” below. A GoFundMe that was set up to help Kiranos recoup his losses is ongoing.

“A New Kind of Lonely” Artwork: