Publicity Campaign: Nature in the City - ‘Cry with Me’

Nature in the City, the music project of German-born artist Robin Sellin, returns with ‘Cry With Me’, a tender indie-folk single that sits in the space between distance and devotion. Written as a direct appeal to a parent who has grown quieter over time, the song asks for something simple and brave, drop the armour, speak honestly, and if it comes to it, cry together.

Now based in Coburg, VIC, Sellin is rebuilding from the ground up in Australia after a decade of work in the German market. The move has reshaped Nature in the City into something quieter and more personal, focused on songs that earn their place through honesty rather than performance.

Supported by Creative Victoria with the Upstart Grant,‘Cry With Me’ opens with a line that sets the tone immediately, ‘Let me in’, a small sentence that carries the whole weight of the song. From there, gentle guitar and intimate piano hold the vocal close as the arrangement slowly builds, with drums arriving later like a tide turning.

The song was written in Metcalfe, regional Victoria, while Sellin and his wife, Kiana, were living in her childhood home. Watching Kiana try to reconnect with her father after years living in Germany brought the subject into focus, and in the same moment, it revealed a parallel distance in Sellin’s own family. ‘Cry With Me’ holds both stories at once, the geography of being far away, and the deeper separation that can form when someone stops letting themselves be seen.

The recording journey mirrors that sense of distance and return. The track began as a late-night guitar draft in Victoria, then travelled outward. Drums were recorded in Berlin by Alex Höffken, bass by Johannes Heger, and harmonies by longtime collaborator Marina Dittrich. Back in Australia, Sellin tracked parts at Echidna Studios in Christmas Hills, with finishing touches and keys handled by William Conway in Brunswick. Mixing was completed by Erik Brauer in New York, and mastering by Philip Shaw Bova in Ontario, Canada.

Despite the song’s softness, the production carries a quiet momentum. Everything is built around the vocal, sitting somewhere between speaking and singing, like a confession that found its melody mid-sentence. It is the kind of track that works at 2am on headphones, and also on a long drive with the windows down.

In the past year, Nature in the City supported Shaun Kirk at The Wesley Anne, and earlier appeared on ABC Radio with David Astle. With ‘Cry With Me’, Sellin steps into a new chapter, setting the tone for a deeper body of work to follow across the next single and EP.

Nature in the City hopes the song feels familiar, like a feeling a listener already had but could not quite name.