Thanks for all of you who have listened and shared We Were Looking for Someone More Youthful - it's been my most popular song on Spotify and Apple (by far!). I have a had few demos on the go since that came out, and wanted to share a
Listen! Let me know what you think! And obviously: tell all your friends. So this one is a bright, slightly surreal indie-rock bounce: upright/double-bass and acoustic guitar carry the groove while crunched Telecasters trade lines with soft trumpets, and sparkling pianos. Those noises at the start are bowed double
As part of my journey, I want to bring my music to more listeners, and contextualise it as part of a wider scene. To that end, I've come up with a playlist which I've called "Post Folk" for now: Finger-picked acoustics meet fuzz pedals,
Today, as a fast follow to my release of The River, I am releasing a track called The Haunting. Like The River, I had released a work-in-progress demo of the song much earlier. This one plays on memories of a village primary school, and the leap to living in London
Before I wrote the lyrics to The River, I released it as a WIP instrumental. It didn’t even have a bass line written (let alone tracked!) at the time - that was overdubbed afterwards, right before the vocals. You can hear the before and after below: Island Wastrel · The
Today I am releasing a track called "The River". The track is inspired by the quiet menace of countryside rituals - especially, in this case, cricket. The song blends irregular melodies, rough-edged guitars, and reggae-tinged bass guitar. Recorded in single unedited takes in my Helsinki apartment. I will
Instruments and people have memory. My job is to listen, not to fix. Sometimes I find ghosts in the material. It’s not my place to expel them, just to make room and let them speak. Recording is an indulgence. But it’s a generous one. It's time