Beauty in your wake

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Maybe it is a little joke from singer Fin Greenall that the title track of the album is not there. By now I know this album so well that I can find it, but it carries a different name. I like that level of understatement. This is not an album that screams, it is a whispering album. Everything about it carries a soft touch.

It is interesting that Greenall on this album shows himself in a different way than on his earlier albums. Here he is more balanced, more mature somehow. Also, there is a relationship with his recent fatherhood, and the emotions around it.

This song is so personal. I am the first to pour hate on other writers when they have kids and end up writing the ‘baby song’ record afterwards but this is my New Dad song and that’s that! When mine grows up I hope she hears this and knows what it’s like to fall in love together.
Aside from parenthood, it’s about nothing ever being the wrong thing, it’s about optimism, it’s about rags to riches to riches to rags. In the end, we get it right either way. When we recorded it, I sat live at an open piano and just belted my heart out into the piano itself to get that lovely reverb from the piano’s body. It had to be a live take and I think that’s why there is so much charge in this one.

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