(Just over) one year of Above The Chords 🌞 I wrote the first bit of this as a poem about a performance I was doing at the modern art museum in Stockholm. There were lots of choirs in the piece, and they would come in and out and sing beautiful songs while we led visitors around the space by the hand. There was something so magical and trusting about it – that a stranger would let you take them by the hand and walk them slowly to a seat or spot on the floor to enjoy the music. At the end of the run of performances I had the post-show dip, and felt like I wasn't ready to let it go. Together we channeled the ideas into this song, Tim with his own interpretation and meanings slightly different from mine. Now I see that people leave comments about lost love, and I see how it continues to grow its own legs and run off to live its own life! It's lovely how, as you write a song, it can mean entirely different things for people – even us two, as we change, even though we're sitting in the same room, singing it to each other. watch video on watch page
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Home is the universe
it’s the earth
a country
a town where I grew
a building of bricks
where they understood
that I’ll leave to find my own
~ in you ~
~ my home ~
where we understand
that we must learn
to remember
that in my self
i see
the universe
our home
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Do you see it?
✨ It's what you miss, when what you wish for doesn't come.
The space that the unexpected creates is filled with unheard possibilities and uncharted pathways, waiting for you to discover and to fall in love with.
We spend so much seeking control in chaos. The sand falls through our fingers. Let it be time to release the grip, ever-so-slightly, to welcome in what's out there for you.
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Aaron Glasson's painting "The Barn Burned down, now I can see the moon" comes from a 17th-century Haiku by Japanese poet Mizuta Masahide, which he wrote after his barn really did burn down. Masahide studied under Haiku master Bashō. A Haiku is meant to link two unconnected things with concision and grace, which is what Glasson's painting does, extreme balance amid a tumbling night-sky dreamscape, form in the formless, sense in the senseless. I also love his death poem:
while I walk on
the moon keeps pace beside me:
friend in the water
The sense of endlessness – or perhaps continuation – is enchanting, cyclical and supremely relaxing. We may not be able to see the grand, celestial logic in our terrestrial lives as we sit inside them, but we can find threads of balance, peace and wholeness hidden deep inside the details.
I've been quiet this week, and we've been too busy to sing and create things to share – and I've missed it. Music creates balance, and our voices together is a sound that resonates with logic in my body. I'll look and see if we can find space for it this week, and I hope you find delightful moments of harmony this week. Love always ❤️
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"As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential." ~ Nick Cave
Painting: "Thoughtful 1" by Juraj Kollár (2014)
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never forget that
you are a slender miracle of time
an opening of eyes
an aliveness impossibly bright
never forget that
it is possible to gust through
like a seed, like an opportunity
to make everything you touch
sing.
Painting: "Castle Rock, Marblehead" by Sarah Cohen (2025)
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Recently I keep thinking about this interview with Thom Yorke where the interviewer asked about Radiohead not being afraid to tackle the largeness of human experience, to go to those deep places, and Thom said something to the effect of: it's not #Radiohead that's impressive in that respect, it's the people who listen to the music – that they just make it, and the listeners are the ones that create that space. Such a beautiful recognition of how music travels through musicians just briefly – but lives in the bodies of people who listen and integrate the songs into themselves.
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When you're out on a walk around your favourite lake and your bestie starts filming selfie-mode 🧐🤓
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New song 'Sober' out 3rd April — with live acoustic video 💞
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It's been 9 years since we last released music, and we have much more to come. watch video on watch page
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