By Will McGuirk
“For me it's usually the emotional and sonic qualities of a song that catch me first and the rest of it later. After getting deep into the lyrics I enjoy that it's calling out the fake and the shallow; I like doing that in my songs. So this one goes out to the influencers.” - Mike Edel
By Will McGuirk
Everyone knows the Laj, everyone knows Jeanette, everyone knows because they travel and tour and perform and party and chat afters and befores and genuinely dig it, dig it all, even the crappy bits, its all grist for a song, so keep ‘em guessing Dany but we know don’t we, its called resilience.
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“"Through a shared connection I had the huge honour of receiving an advance copy of renowned resilience researcher Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s new book, which is a deeply powerful book about finding our path to everyday resiliency. To my great shock, right in the pages of the book, she talks about writing parts of the book to my music. When she reached out with this pretty unique idea of having a theme song for her book launch, I jumped at the chance. I was so deeply affected by the book and her story, I wanted to do it justice with my song. The themes of the book (developing resilience, finding our way through hard things, being ‘OK’) provided a rich emotional canvas to work from." - Peter Katz
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“I was half joking around thinking about how much time and energy I was spending obsessing over music stuff and feeling like a bit of a dork. I think everyone can relate to that in some way. But that's when it dawned on me that sometimes you might just have to learn to enjoy the rollercoaster because I knew that I was always going to continue making and sharing music, regardless of the results.” - Jiants