I envisioned those women who carry huge, heavy baskets of fruit on their heads while remaining so poised and graceful as if the burden wasn't there. My burden is emotional. At the time I was extremely depressed and finding it impossible to dig myself out. 

I've spent my life in and out of depression and always feeling like an outlier, a freak on the inside but rarely do I show it. On the outside I show confidence and strength and seem to fit in but during these bouts I feel insecure, depleted and weak. I'm a good faker and I learned over time that if you fake anything long enough it can begin to feel "normal".  The battle to fit into society's constrictive concept of life and love is exhausting and hopeless. I've tried to be "normal". I went to university, got my degree, fell in love, got married, had a monogamous relationship, lived together, had 2 cats, but it never felt right. I felt trapped and suffocated by these inhumane, unhealthy structures and concepts.  I am saddened by our system that brainwashes people into believing education, material objects, beauty, money, marriage and a pension will fulfill them. 

This song is about the constant struggle to protect myself from
a society that tells me I am not good enough. So my head may be high but my heart is low.

Echolocation

Head High

ECHLO - Head High

Music has the potential to take you to places that are seemingly more profound, more subtle and more beautiful than anything that can be expressed simply with words and language. As a teenager i remember vividly the experience of discovering the music of bands Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions In The Sky and Sigur Ros. It sparked in me a desire to create my own music. The idea that I could potentially write something on my guitar that was expressing things beyond my own understanding of the world was, and still is, incredibly exciting.

Throughout the whole album writing process for ‘Yes, Sleep Well Death’ i found myself reconnecting with that initial sense of excitement i felt when first exploring writing and recording my own music as a teenager. Dive was for me the track that best expressed this, and for is is the centrepiece of the whole record.

Tom Adams - Dive

The Toronto based singer Chloe Charles aka ECHLO is teaming up with Aléatoire — the  electronic  project  of  Montrealer Charles-Alain Roy — for the remix of her latest single "Head High" anticipating her debut album "Echolocation" out the 26th of October.

Head High (Aléatoire Remix)

ECHLO - Head High (Aléatoire Remix)

Suspicions

Ex Mykah - Suspicions

I originally wrote Peninsula on an acoustic guitar whilst camping near the sea on the west coast of Scotland. I have always found playing music a very comfortable way of expressing how i feel, often i write something and during the process find myself engaging with particular topics or emotions in my life that i didn’t realise were there. It is as if the sub-conscious connection between my brain and an instrument is a more honest expression of how i feel than my conscious thoughts. Peninsula was one of those songs.

Yes, Sleep Well Death

Peninsula

Tom Adams - Peninsula

Beautifully cruel is about what I've sacrificed to be an artist. I've sacrificed love and a normal healthy relationship. Basically, I've always put my art first. Art had been my soulmate and it seems nobody had been able to stand up to it. However, it's a bitter love because I have always wanted to find love but at some point I gave up and figured I'm destined to be alone with my music because I'm just a crazy artist that doesn't understand how to be in a relationship. 

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Beautifully Cruel

ECHLO - Beautifully Cruel

Interventions is a song about how our country is in the throes of drug addiction. Many friends and idols have passed over the years do to various forms of addiction and it took me a while to figure out a way to discuss that in a song. It finally dawned on me that trapping this kind of lyrical message in a song that could be played in a club where one does such things was the most eloquent way to go. That said, musically the track is inspired by personal psychedelic trips and pulls from dark wave, diplo and hip hop.

Ex Mykah - Interventions

Kowloon Records is a London based independent record label focusing on releasing various genres of innovative music including electronic, avant-garde and pop. Kowloon's mission is to create a meeting point for brilliant musicians from around the world, bound by a visionary belief in the power of art.

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