IN THIS CITY

Maybe one day, you’ll look back & you’ll see
Time turned on its head in this city…

 

I had no intention of making a 22-and-a-half-minute-long song – it just turned out that way. People have asked, “Why this duration, is it this way on purpose?”. It’s not a song that will get played in its entirety on the radio unless there is a station that will devote an entire section of airspace to it. It’s as long as it is and it is what it is…

Thinking about it; it’s a reminder – both to myself and others – that I release music that is completely true to the musician I am and the necessity to let things just happen, and that the result is what sounds 150% right to myself. I don’t create songs to garner temporary attention. I want people to listen to my work who will find something valuable and lasting in it, and for it to mean something special to them.

This song was written at a point in my life when many things were changing. ‘In This City’ is a piece of music with lots of different messages; it’s a love letter to a time and a place, a reminder that if you had everything you ever wanted there would be nothing else to want, and it’s also a lament on the universal spaces we share as a society and the evolving nature of them.

I’m happy that I was able to capture this music in this way; nothing could be better about it, which is surprising, because being such a perfectionist – which can be difficult at times – I was certain that I’d listen back and find at least a little something – even if it was a split second – that I would change.

There have been some interesting responses to this song – “cinematic, escapist, progressive, visual”, etc. – so with one of these thoughts being ‘visual’, I thought I’d put together a selection of photographs I have taken to accompany the production of this music:
 

 
It takes time to really listen to something, whether it’s 3.5 minutes long or 22.5 minutes long. I hope that when you listen, you are in a headspace that allows for nothing else in the background to bleed in and take away from that very process.

 

‘In This City’ is available to download on all major music platforms

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