I had a pretty extensive shortlist to narrow down to my top 10 albums of the year, which tells me that it was a good year for the kind of music I like! My favourite album this year was Addison Rae’s debut ‘Addison’, but I don’t necessarily think it’s the most musically accomplished album of the year. That would be Rosalía’s ‘Lux’, which is an absolute tour de force. But I enjoyed listening to Addison more! It’s the kind of well-written, dreamy, slightly vague, slightly arty p

I’m coming up to take a breath after a crazy year, and I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the musical side of 2024!...

The first time I heard Radiohead’s ‘Idioteque’, back in early high school, I hated it. I was in a big classic rock phase at the time, and...

I wrote 'Maybe' with death on my mind. The lyrics are quite abstract, because I was trying to capture a pretty complex feeling. The...

I wrote ‘Everywhere I Go’ around the same time I wrote ‘Foxhole’, my previous single. That is, some time around 2010/2011. Rather than go...

Foxhole is about the intoxicating rush of young adulthood. I wrote it when I was 20, and I think the best way to give it context is to...

I wrote ‘Squarespace’ in a bit of a flurry along with some other songs that have ended up in various places, all inspired by reading...

Every songwriter has their ‘white whale’ songs that hang around for years but never quite make it to land. I’ve had a few of these, but...

Just a quick update on how everything is going: The Hey Geronimo album is still almost done (down to the last 5% now), but we’ve started...

I like to think of my music in terms of phases rather than specific projects, and I feel like I’ve just completed the first phase of my...

It’s been a while since my last blog entry, but that’s because there have been other things to do — mostly good things! I’ve sent an EP...

Hello all! As you may have seen, I have just released a couple of songs that I’ve had in the vaults for a few years now. ‘In Submarines’...

Well, I finally made it to Melbourne! After the most recent weekend lockdown, my partner Adele and I decided to throw caution to the wind...