Narcissists are everywhere...
Main vocals and acoustic guitar are actually a phone recording, with everything else built up around it.

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“After you’re released from oppressive clutches, you can always find the sunshine in everything again.”
‘Seeing Things’ was originally recorded as a more stripped back track on Breathe’s first EP ‘Postcards From Obscurity.’
It was then released as our first single off this “forthcoming album,” just as the world started re-emerging from the Covid lockdown periods.

Seeing Things

60 Seconds

Still Breathing, Still Believing was written in acknowledgement and support for the plight of refugees everywhere.
While there is breath in my body, my spirit remains alive.

Still Breathing, Still Believing

‘Decisions’ is a folky/indie/pop explosion of sounds and words that have had a lifespan of their own, over 3 decades. Meg was 16 when her parents bought her a harmonica for her birthday, so she wrote this simple song as part of the process of figuring out how to play it!

In all this time, it has never been recorded properly before, so it is almost poetic justice (and the end of an era) to finally have it included like it is, on the #tagmeinnit full length album.

‘Decisions’ was the last track to be recorded and the first track to include new bassist Adria Tarrida. It has never been released before, so proudly has its debut here.

Decisions

Every now and then you come across people who possess a certain gravitas - people who take themselves very seriously - they pick you up to pull you down.
The bullies are everywhere, and the music industry certainly has its own fair share.
Bullying can take on many forms in many different social and professional aspects of life.
'Gravity’ is a song about "sticking it to the bully," weighing in the ups and the downs and realising the weight of waiting for a certain situation to finally fall into place. Just carry on like no one’s watching.

Gravity

"Railway Ranty" is a non-nautical shanty-esque Folk tune, which stands in solidarity with the Rail, Post and Barrister strikers who are striving for fairer pay and work conditions. Written on the morning of the first train strike in the UK, June 2022.
Meg McRae - Vocals, Mandolin, Ukulele, Guitar
Pete Darlo - Bodhran, Drums, Percussion
Chris Kyriacou - Bass
Michael Nicholson - Backing vocals

Railway Ranty Single Version

Nobody's normal...Nobody's perfect. And life can be mean enough if it wants to be. So cut yourself some slack, and everyone else some while you're about it!

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RoadMaps is about coming out of and being released from your own personal and internal lockdown, whilst also being at peace with not knowing where the paths you take will lead you...how long it will take…who will be there with you…what you’ll be doing and how you’ll get back, if you need to. Believe in the journey and go with it.

Meg McRae - Vocals/Backing Vocals; Acoustic Guitar; Mandolin
Pete Darlo - Drums
Chris Kyriacou - Bass

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Adie Hardy at Expander Music, May 2023

RoadMaps

A.I ...It's here...it knows what, why and how you do things...
You can't hug an algorithm when all of humanity's gone.

Meg McRae -Vocals, acoustic guitar
Pete Darlo - Drums and percussion
Chris Kyriacou - Bass

Breathe…an energetic, experimental, "half-acoustic-half electric but always eclectic" band based in Surrey, formed mid 2019 over a rum ‘n coke in a bar in Kingston, when Meg met Pete! Initially starting out as a duo with Meg on acoustic guitar and Pete on cajon, they have also collaborated with a few different musicians (and instruments!) over the years. But as for now, Breathe are currently enjoying being a "power trio", with the addition of bassist Chris Kyriacou.
Weaving a range of influences into their songwriting, they have created their own melodic twist of “hyper-folk” - that’s folk roots with elements of indie, rock, classical and world music played in an upbeat and energetic style - but have also moved into louder territories, with Meg going electric and Pete back behind a kit. But plugged in or not, they are always socially conscious of the world around them, and try to reflect this through their music.

Breathe Band

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