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Summertime - Release Date: 23.07.21

How I'm Feeling Today, 10.07.21:

Yesterday evening I announced the release of 'Summertime', the first single off of my forthcoming EP. I am incredibly confident in the quality of the song and believe it to be one of the best songs I have written. However, I have felt incredibly anxious since announcing it. I've put SO much of myself into this EP and all of the songs on it, that there's now so much fear in releasing and losing control of them. It's just reminded me how uncertain and scary being a musician can be sometimes and the terrifying excitement in showing people who you are, and letting people judge you, through your music. 

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Recording The Debut EP

April - July 2021

I've been away recording my debut EP for the past 4 months. However, It's been a long time coming, longer than simply these past few months. Some of these songs are weeks old, others up to 6 years old. But, they combine to make an EP that best represents where I am in my life at this moment: Joyful, anxious, nostalgic and hopeful. The duality of these emotions is prevalent from song to song in the running order of the EP. And, as a result, this has become the theme that ties together these mercurial feelings. 

Primarily, I've spent the past few months away from home, sleeping in a caravan owned by other family members. However, the space that comes from changing environments and from being away from the comfort of home has been formative. For once, If I wanted things to progress forward, I would have to take the initiative. this matured me emotionally and musically. Although, there were many sleepless nights full of self-doubt, over-thinking and exhaustion, I look back on this time in my life so positively. Surprisingly to me, I even feel a slight sadness in the ending of it. But, although I feel that I'm ending a chapter in my life, I'm equally as excited to show you all what comes next and what I'm musically capable of. Right now, the EP lives in a realm of endless possibilities and opportunity. It truly can, at this time, do anything. This feels increasingly positive to me. 

At this time, the EP is mostly finished. It's comprised of 5 songs, each of which showcases a different style and my versatility as a songwriter and, like it's theme, a constant state of change. It's aware, focused and knows what it is. So, regardless of what is to come and what people may or may not think about it, this EP will forever mark a moment in time for me. One that refuses to ever be forgotten, and I'm happy that's how I chose to spend these past months... 

This has been a time in my life i'll happily look back on for years to come, and I cannot wait for you all to hear it... 

 

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All That I Need - OUT NOW

Song Story:

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.

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Reliever - OUT NOW

“Pop music is not known for having hidden depths. In fact, most three-minute groovers with their sights set on assailing the pop charts would be lucky to boast hidden shallows. But the ability to write poised and purposeful pop, songs which are both fun and throw-away yet which are so meaningful and relevant to the listener that they want to hold them tight forever, is what sets apart the real song-crafters from the fly-by-night chancers. Reliever is a deceptive song, one which easily tells you which of those two camps Edenhill belongs in. Whilst firing off infectious lyrical salvos, vocal deliveries which mesh with the song in an almost instrumental way, Reliever discusses the idea of love and escapism. “Is this love?” it asks, musing on the idea that sometimes we can find ourselves not so much in love with a person, more in love with being in love, high on the emotion and the adrenaline rush which we get from such a feeling. And it delivers those ideas through a perfectly poised pop vehicle, a self-fulfilling prophecy which almost wills the listener to fall for its musical charms and ironically missing the more philosophical content of the lyrics. Oh, the irony! But whilst you are trying to get your head around the songs wonderful contradictions, you are presented with whip-sharp guitar riffs, industrial-strength dance floor grooves and a contagion factor which goes up to eleven. Pop has always been fun, infectious and accessible. Reliever is proof that it can also be deep, thoughtful and questioning. Now that has to be unexpectedly good value for your pop pound.”

— Dancing About Architecture (15-Jan-21)

“Mixing indie with heady doses of power-pop, British talent Edenhill is back with a track that demands your attention right from the start. While still early on his journey to pop stardom, this kid is one to watch.”

— Alftitude (15-Jan-21)

Afterlife (Debut Single)

“Although very much sitting in the pop world, Afterlife, the debut single from Edenhill, is a much smarter musical cookie than such a generic label might at first suggest. It is undeniably infectious, which is the bare minimum requirement for such a record anyway, but it is shot through with musical smarts that lift it above the modern pop pack. Smarts such as the cool indie vibes of the euphoric and slightly hazy vocal deliveries, the underlying funkiness that adds energy and drive, the neat use of dynamic gear changes from understated piano break downs to soaring choruses and just the overall contagion of the song. Pop can mean many different things different people but for me it is at its best when it is being gene-spliced with more indie moves, more intricately crafted energies and that is what is happening here. Too much mainstream music, that destined to be merely, single-use, throwaway pop, opts for straight dance beats and simple rhythmic urges but Afterlife proves the it can also be musically adept and wonderfully addictive, it can match groove with something more musically graceful – that it is possible to be big AND clever.”

— Dancing About Architecture

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