hey dude saw this on insta!! this is really good dont stop making music, didnt expect this to only have 11 plays honestly i thought itd be like 10k 😓😓

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“‘Return To The East’ is about going back to your roots, back to simplicity and in turn overcoming doubt, reclaiming personal identity and finding clarity and strength in who you are. 

It was written during a visit to my hometown of Montrose, on the East Coast of Scotland. I was on a bike ride towards Lunan Bay on a sun-drenched day when I entered a deep reflection triggered by the landscape around me. The sea, wild grasses and ploughed fields transported me back to my childhood. I was not long out of university at the time and was trying to find my feet, figure out who I was and what I wanted away from the external noise of city life in Glasgow and the influence of others.”

Return To The East

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch @ 209 Mastering
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2024
With funding from Culture Liverpool/SIF

Lyrics:

Quarter life crisis
I don’t wanna grow old anyway
Cut my hair and I stain my shirt
All the darkness blocks the hurt

Is it always like this?
Struggling with the bills and microwave
Crush the bugs beneath my shoe
Make a wish that won’t prove true

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

Small town with nothing
Working 9-5 no extra pay
But I am proud of where I’m from
A little valley where no-one comes

I used to know her mother
She got forced to move out by the state
Corporate greed with a fancy bow
Take a memory, ruin a show

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive
Oh alive

Oh I am nothing to you
You were my brother I never knew
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

NOTHING2U

Vine Song

Out now, from the EP Fold In On Yourself (27/9/24)

Pre-order your super ltd edition cassette here: https://helloskilift.bandcamp.com/album/fold-in-on-yourself

Have Fun, Make Friends

Can't Catch Me Now!

Leylines

Into the Blue

Released Friday 6th September 2024 on Sisterhood Records

False Hope

High And Wasted

High and Wasted (Radio Edit) [feat. Sock Drawer]

North Star is an uplifting song about seeing the light in someone, even if they don’t see it in themselves, and how you use their light to guide your way home in the dark. How you can see them glowing, the spark that surrounds them and appreciate their strength and compassion through life’s hardships.

North Star

Streaming links

https://courteousthief.co.uk/porcelain

Porcelain

Nobodies master 16bit

Unbaked (Hold Tight)

BRUISSEMENTS

cryer mya is the moniker of South London songwriter, Rishi Saluja. The project emerged in 2024 as he began writing, producing and capturing new songs in his bedroom. 

The project’s first live outing was at Glastonbury 2024, for fans of Andy Shauf, Sam Evian and Alice Phoebe Lou.

new song, A Circle Forms, out now ⚆

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