This week, I have a new single out. A blues-dub number called "Searching for Limbs". It's a play on the English folk song title "Searching for Lambs". The lyrics are set on a small pier in Helsinki, where I am imagining what I
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 bit
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
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
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
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 River
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
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