Ironically, ‘Summertime’ was written In the Autumn of 2020, after me and some friends spontaneously decided to go swimming in the sea at midnight. Although it was cold, dark and reckless, we all felt so free In that moment. I wanted to immortalise that feeling forever. This song has become the anthem to our friendship and a homage a random night that could’ve been like any other, but wasn’t.

Sometimes it can feel as if we take the people we love most for granted, and lash out at the people closest to us without enough reason or thought. “All That I Need” was written after a difficult period in my life where I found myself pushing away the very people who tried to stay close to me. Convinced by my head that It was safer just to be alone, I ended up alienating myself, when what I really needed was to have those same people around me to get me out. However, from this all, I found the idea of pushing away the people we love most away really intriguing. The contradiction of it all. Because of this, I wrote “All That I Need” as an apology to my friends and family explaining that it wasn’t them that I was mad at, it was myself.

I wrote reliever to assess the relationship between love and escapism. Whether we sometimes use love and other distractions as escapes from our own pain, and as an easy way of avoiding facing the reality of ourselves. From personal experience I noticed, the longer we live with this confusion, the harder it becomes to distinguish between what is real and fake emotion: what is love and what is just us running away from ourselves. So, similar to how we can all hide behind distractions from reality, I thought the song should similarly be deceptive, and hide behind the facade of a glossy, fake, pop aphetic.

Written & Performed by: Edenhill (James Edgecombe)

Produced by: Richard Flack

Mastered by: Randy Merrill