Push & Pull

We Don’t Care

stepping on stones
sore feet
shoes, float away 

    Whitstable, July 2021


Written for the Britten Sinfonia Opus 1 Scheme 2021

With thanks to Marcus Barcham-Stevens (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), Oli Pashley (clarinet), Sarah Burnett (bassoon) & Rachel Wilkinson (Britten Sinfonia administration team), Dobrinka Tabakova and Joe Cutler (tutors)

shoes, float away

The Revenge of an Ugly Teenager

Guitars, Mandolins, Keys, Synths, Bass and Vocals by Fionn Connolly.
Drums and Vocal Arrangement by Sam Porteous.
Synth Arrangement by Tommy Gale.
Trumpet by Ben Gardiner.
Tenor Sax by Jared Bennet.
Trombone by Clara Daly Donnellan.
Vocal Sample by Pia Rose Scattergood.
Backing Vocals by Es George, Sam Porteous & Ash Weir.
Drums and Vocals recorded by Fionn Connolly and Iona Catherine at Goldsmiths Music Studios.
Brass Recorded by Matt Cooke at Camden Garden Studios.
Produced and Mixed by Fionn Connolly at Semicircle Studios.
Mastered by Nick Powell.

Released by Mahogany Songs on 13 June 2025
P-line: ℗ 2025 Fionn Connolly under exclusive license to Mahogany Songs
C-line:© 2025 Fionn Connolly under exclusive license to Mahogany Songs

Lyrics:
I moved to a new room
I put the same pictures up as when i knew you
I put the same plants around me 
where they first grew
And it’s the same
Oh, its the same

And you said hey
I was looking for something to say
but my words left my halfway 
And it all just feels the same
Oh, its the same

I’ve been feeling lost these days, and I 
don’t know where to turn
I’ve been feeling low these days, and I
know it will return

Cause nothing changes
It’s the stasis we’ve come to know
(the same, the same, the same, the same)
It springs eternal
It’s the circle that continues to flow
(the same, the same, the same, the same)

I moved on as you do
I put the past behind me to try to pull through
I put the past behind me to start anew
But its the same
Oh, its the same

So I guess that you’re still here
I’m not quite in the clear, so I go back to last year
when the emptiness appeared
And its the same

Cause nothing changes
It’s the stasis we’ve come to know
(the same, the same, the same, the same)
It springs eternal
It’s the circle that continues to flow
(the same, the same, the same, the same)

I took the tide to take me to shores where I might sleep
Commit my body to the waves, to salt my soul to keep
But the water would not have me, my time had not yet come
So I sailed away from yesterday, and still i sail on

Cause nothing changes
It’s the stasis we’ve come to know
(the same, the same, the same, the same)
It springs eternal
It’s the circle that continues to flow
(the same, the same, the same, the same)

Stasis

Guitars, Keys, Violins and Vocals by Fionn Connolly.
Produced and Mixed by Fionn Connolly at Semicircle Studios.
Mastered by Nick Powell.

Released as an exclusive soundtrack to the Notes On: Love in the time of Heartache zine.

Released by Mahogany Songs on 14 February 2025
P-line: ℗ 2025 Fionn Connolly under exclusive license to Mahogany Songs
C-line:© 2025 Fionn Connolly under exclusive license to Mahogany Songs

Lyrics:
morning train
i’m off to work again
i left you sleeping in our queen size bed
and then set off in the rain

i work the days, you work the evenings
which makes it difficult to do things
but its okay
this was the plan
you’d act on stage, i’d start a band
and we’d never have any difficult feelings

i love you as i’m bleeding dry
i overstretch and then i start to cry
we’ve only got an hour
lets not spend it feeling sour 
i feel safe
when i’m reflected in your eyes 

i wear my heart proudly on my sleeve
but i still get by by grinding my teeth
its getting harder monthly to breathe
to see you, i had to book annual leave

i love you as i’m bleeding dry
i overstretch and then i start to cry
but its okay, this was the plan,
you’d act on stage, i’d start a band
and we’d never have any difficult feelings
no we’d never have any difficult feelings
no we’d never have any difficult feelings

Difficult Feelings

how we rotate is a suite of four songs for recorder trio. The songs explore the quirks of new relationships between people: shuffling self-consciously from one leg to another as two people are introduced; mechanistic obsession with making a good first impression (but seeming uptight and forced in the process); hiding fragility through a facade of anti-sentimentality.

The musical material is simple at heart and is repeated many times, weaving around itself, often in a cyclical or circular way.

i. rocking song (one)
ii. i’m not very good at dancing
iii. and i promise i’m not sentimental
iv. rocking song (two)

Recorders: Tabea Debus, Charlotte Barbour-Condini, Olwen Foulkes
Artwork: Eitil Thorén Due (a.k.a. Peytil)

how we rotate

and i promise i'm not sentimental

Performed at the Royal Academy of Music, 5 February 2020

Christopher Austin – conductor
Mark Simpson – clarinet
Zoë Martlew – cello
Huw Watkins – piano

textures of carrot

6. pickled carrot [expired] - Rancid

some demos. titles are not final. nor the mixes. or the songs.

enjoy xx

vocals + guitars + bloops: arthur 
synths + pans + melodies in 13: adam
drums + samples + pith: laurence
bass + vocals + microwave: Ed

sound engineered, produced + mixed by arthur robijns

all copyright pushpin + cobblerbob ltd. yeah don't share this

Microwave Song

antiquities [excerpt]

so good you said it twice.

Forever Forever are a genre-blending and gender-bending London-based quartet - combining 00s indie with modern pop, adding in a dash of folk and a hint of grunge, and rounding it all oﬀ with timelessly lush four-part harmonies. Their music explores the ups and downs of navigating your 20s in the modern world, their diverse musical backgrounds coming together to create a sound that is introspective one moment, ecstatic the next. 

Their first release “Diﬃcult Feelings” caught attention on Apple Music’s New in Indie and New in Alternative editorial playlists, and with their debut single proper “Good Light In”, Forever Forever are set to cement themselves as a vibrant new voice capturing the messy, joyous contradictions of young adulthood.