If You've Got Trouble

The Years E.P.

The Waves

WONDERFUL EP
Produced, Engineered, & Mixed by Cary Samsel
Mastered by Stephen Pettyjohn

BURN ME DOWN
Written by Jacob Westfall, Hayley Lynn
Musicians: Jacob Westfall (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano), Cary Samsel (Guitars, Synths), Dylan Sundstrom (Bass), Taylor Dawn (BG Vox), Nathan Powell (Drums), Alex Milsted (Organ & Synths)

THOSE DAYS
Written by Jacob Westfall
Musicians: Jacob Westfall (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano), Cary Samsel (Guitars, Synths), Dylan Sundstrom (Bass), Taylor Dawn (BG Vox), Nathan Powell (Drums), Alex Milsted (Organ & Synths), Skip VonKuske (Cello)

WONDERFUL
Written by Jacob Westfall
Musicians: Jacob Westfall (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano), Cary Samsel (Guitars, Synths), Dylan Sundstrom (Bass), Taylor Dawn & Adam Black(BG Vox), Nathan Powell (Drums), Alex Milsted (Organ & Synths)

BETTER DAYS
Written by Jacob Westfall, Kawan DeBose
Musicians: Jacob Westfall (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar), Cary Samsel (Guitars, Synths), Dylan Sundstrom (Bass), Taylor Dawn & Adam Black(BG Vox), Nathan Powell (Drums), Alex Milsted (Organ)

GOODBYE FOR NOW
Written by Jacob Westfall
Musicians: Jacob Westfall (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards), Cary Samsel (Guitars, Synths, Beats), Taylor Dawn(BG Vox)

Burn Me Down

Number 3 from my Anxious Lullabies x
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This mess 
Is blissful pandemonium 
And I’ll confess
I sometimes think my life is like a Jackson Pollock painting

Layers of love 
Shout when you’ve had enough 

Two sides 
I’m turbulent and fragile
Silver and black lines
You know I sometimes think my life is like a Jackson Pollock Painting 

Layers of love
Shout when you’ve had enough

I Sometimes Think My Life Is Like A Jackson Pollock Painting

'Closure' released 26th March 2020 on Fortress Sounds via AWAL.
STREAM / DOWNLOAD: https://smarturl.it/McClosure

Written by Natalie McCool & Kenzo Zurzolo
Performed by Natalie McCool
Recorded & produced by Kenzo Zurzolo at Paname, Paris, France.
Additional mix & production by Future Humans at Studio 13, London, UK
Mastered by Chris Daniels at Organised Rhyme, Brighton, UK 

"Bouncy, off kilter synths paired with driving drums & guitars to create a record that's playful yet very powerful."

Speaking on the new track, Natalie shared: 

“Have you ever wanted to get over someone so much that you figuratively bury them? 'Closure' is the journey you take to finally slamming the door on that person. It's a high energy middle finger to your once beloved.  What I imagine people doing when they listen to this song is bouncing around singing the chorus at the top of their lungs - I wanted to create something that is anthemic but also full of humour.  Because sometimes, crying and laughing are not so different from one another. 

When you are suffering from loss & grief from a bond that's been broken, the emotions you feel are very complex and numerous, the facets of a break up are many - like a rainbow.  This idea interests me because rainbows are always seen as positive, and I believe going through that range of feeling is also positive because it's a necessary process FOR closure.  

So I brought this rainbow idea, which is also a big image in the song's chorus, to all of the creative ideas for the single campaign too – the idea of reflection, refraction and spectrum – what is necessary to achieve closure.”

Making her first steps into music when she won a national song writing competition judged by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Natalie McCool has excelled. 

Releasing her album ‘The Great Unknown’ in 2016, it has made tastemakers across the board fans of her exceptional art, with notable supports with Aurora & Jamie Lawson, & acclaim from The Sunday Times, Q, Pigeons & Planes & Wonderland as well as BBC Radio 1 DJs Huw Stephens & Alice Levine.

Fully wrapped up, her forthcoming album is a fine collection of songs which channel her raw, inimitable writing style. Partly co-written with The Wombats' Daniel Haggis, they capture and crystallize her memories from both childhood and adulthood, weaving deeply intimate stories that channel life's most vital thoughts and feelings like love, jealousy and loss into a skewed mixture of lilting yet gloriously catchy pop songs.

Lyrics
I'm giving up your ghost, gonna let you go
Gonna break the chain, give myself a break
Time to say goodbye, bury you alive	
I've got 6 feet going spare...

...me the illusion
Let's call a spade a spade oh I'm only human

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure, closure
I put flowers on your grave, I wear a rainbow every day
All that I want is closure, closure

I, I got some way to go, I know it's a joke
Tryna break these chains, I've give myself away
Lucky you're not here to lay it all on me dear			
Cos I've been 6 months going spare...

...me the illusion
Let's call a spade a spade let's call it delusion

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure, closure
I put flowers on your grave, I wear a rainbow every day
All that I want is closure, closure

All that I want is closure, closure, closure
All that I want is closure, closure, closure

I try my best to make you go away I bury you every day
All that I want is closure
And all the shit that's meant to go away seems like it's here to stay
All that I want is closure, closure

Closure

Vocals: Hannah Biggam, Erica Bloem (https://soundcloud.com/ebloem), Robert Morgan & myself

Lyrics:

In death,
all minor irritations
peel away on both sides.
Two people
silently knowing.

When the rust
breaks the metal,
it will be clear
that the shine was there
all along.

The Glimmer

What am I doing?
Where am I going?
How do i get there?
Where do I go?

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What am I doing?
Where am I going?
How do i get there?
Where do I go?

Will come with you me?
Do you still get me?
Could you forgive me
And just let it go?

How am I doing?
Where am I growing?
How did I get here?
What do I know?

Do you still love me?
Could you forget me?
Will you still be there when
Time's getting old?

I listen to those
Who see where it goes,
who live the like the river
And watch it all flow.

I'll write you a poem,
We'll bask in the gloam,
Give me your keys,
I'm driving us home.

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What am I doing?
Where am I going?
How do i get there?
Where do I go?

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Are you still hoping
Are you still coping?
You hanging in there
Or just letting go?

Don't leave me alone
Don't look at your phone
Don't make me do something
I'd rather postpone.

Are you still breathing?
Will you believe me?
You are protected,
Your body and soul.

Just keep it all breezy
Make it easy
To just love
And to live in the ohm.

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You mean the most to me
You weren't supposed to see
All those things I've always kept hidden
But damn, you're so close to me.

Give me a mountain stream,
I'll tell you my my favorite dream,
Where everything's spinning, and I can't stop thinking
That's how it's supposed to be.

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What am I doing?
Where am I going?
How do i get there?
Where do I go?

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I'm telling you everything
Are you even listening?
I guess it gets harder and harder to hear
When I'm always whispering.

What Am I Doing (Demo)

I couldn't be more basic if I tried.

Lyrics written with Nick 😘

time - elishaa x (prod. bjornllaneza)

I guess I would've
never let a better friend
take away the pain
of a better man.

Take a Pill (Prod. by Stoic Beats)

Take A Pill (Prod. by Stoic Beats)

2 tunes called The Dawdler's Dream and Trolska - both written by me on an NYFE course. Accompanied by Carl Schenker.

Take A Pill (Prod. by Stoic Beats)

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