“‘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

face to face

Shut Ya Mouth

No Future

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

slow down

Final track on the EP "You Don't Show Up Anymore"

("You Don’t Show Up Anymore" is the first EP from London-based Synthpop and Dream Pop project Telegraph Hill.
It contains five songs, all of which are catchy and bittersweet and full of twinkly arpeggios and drum machines and echo-drenched vocals and semi-obvious New Order worship. All five songs aim to make you think about your friends, and where they're at, and how come they don't call anymore?
It’s not all a gloomy affair. “Jellyfish” is a bubbly, relaxing pop song, an ode to spending time with someone you care about and imagining yourselves as carefree aquatic creatures. You could also dance to "Good Friends", or the title track, if you really wanted to. Which I hope you do - wait, which *he hopes you do. He's not writing his own press release for this EP, don't worry about it. He's big enough to pay someone to do that for him)

Telegraph Hill - Writer, Synthesiser, Vocals, Percussion, Piano, Mixing, Mastering
Ralph Roberts - Backing vocals (Tracks 1 & 5), Guitar (Tracks 2 & 5)
Zac Richardson - Bass (Tracks 2 &5)
Cover art by Aada Koivuniemi

Gardens

All I Need

The Jojo Man Band - The Day

Cause and Effect 

No cause for looking back
No cause and no effect 
We’re on the right track 
Don’t know where we’re going 
Come down it’s not too late 
Leave now, the car won’t wait 
You’ve got to navigate 
This wheel keeps on turning 

No chance of turning back 
Played a hand you can’t retract 
Trying hard to understand, why we even bother
Come down before too long 
We’ve got to motor on
You’ve got to navigate
This wheel keeps on turning

It makes no sense at all 
Can we be half sensible?
Are you listening?
Does it matter at all?
Is it circumstantial?
Does it feel like waking up?
It’s a matter of taste
It’s just a pattern of waves 

The world keeps turning
But we’re still not learning 
Are you listening?
Does it matter at all?
Is it existential? 
Does it feel like waking up?
It’s a matter of taste
It’s just a pattern of waves

Copyright Found Instruments 2019

Cause and Effect

Found Instruments is the solo/recording project of singer-songwriter Jack Joseph Titcombe (Learn to Surf, Jack Joseph Band)

Specialising in a unique form of wonky psychedelia and lo-fi dream-pop, the project has produced a handful of well received singles and been featured on BBC Introducing.

Soft and ethereal vocals, similar to Tame Impala and Mac Demarco - Clunk Mag

Channeling the same smooth and woozy vibe as Tame Impala and Toro Y Moi.. Wonderfully textured and engaging - Mystic Sons