“I was in the Caribbean in 2017-18 with two friends I grew up with. We’d invite people into the studio and with this song and you could just see their faces loosening up. Naturally, once we started writing it, it was always going to be a positive song. There's a lot of you.’ That's true of all of us. ‘This is who you are.’ It didn't take much to say, ‘Well, that's not true. A big part of the conversations I was having with myself was about how, from whatever age, promoting yourself felt very locked in. , I was going through old journals and had pages of trying to figure out who Tiger Lily could be. ‘Anyone for You’ doesn't feel like that for me. “Often, when I listen to someone else's album, I end up skipping track one once I've listened to it once or twice, because it's like the artist is trying to introduce you to the album. At this moment, it felt like the right thing to do.” Read on as the singer-songwriter walks us through each track on his touching third album, including the four exclusive songs on this Apple Music Edition in Spatial Audio. But I think this is a moment in time for me. ‘I'm proud of this record,’ ‘it's a personal record’ is the least sincere thing you hear artists say all the time. “I see it as a gold rush: Be the gold rush kid. You've lived a life that you couldn't have predicted so far,” says Ezra. Born of those bracing conversations with himself, these are tracks about loneliness and yearning for love (“Sweetest Human Being Alive”), mental health (“I Went Hunting,” about Ezra’s experiences of intrusive, repetitive thoughts), the unexpected contentment he found in lockdown (“The Sun Went Down”), and just how much he wants to do all of this anyway. But beneath those songs’ breezy charm lies Ezra’s most personal and horizon-broadening music yet. Gold Rush Kid, of course, houses the uplifting anthems that Ezra has built his career on (“Anyone for You,” “Gold Rush Kid”), a side of his music he will always cherish. Because I'm not pinching other people's stories, you're left with your own, and that's great. made me realize how much I'd relied in the past on other people's stories. “I did five weeks in that flat and had an awful lot of conversations with myself. “I was living alone in a flat in London without a balcony,” he tells Apple Music. A mammoth walk the length of the UK was lined up to help unlock album three, but when the pandemic hit in 2020, Ezra, like the rest of us, was forced to stay put. His first two-2014’s Wanted on Voyage and 2018’s Staying at Tamara’s-were propelled by travel (across Europe and in Barcelona, respectively), and the people, places, and things Ezra witnessed along the way. When it came to writing his third album, George Ezra was ready to fall back on a fail-safe formula.
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