ten years afterr a space in time full album

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The astral production propels his defiant affirmations, “Proud of my tears, proud to be alone. In fact, the LP’s stand out quality is how he responds to life’s difficult moments. It contains heartbreak and grief but it’s not a sad album. Jon’s new album ICYMI is the product of an enforced reset. It’s just not a healthy way to deal with how you feel.” And to be like, ‘Oh, but other people would love this’. To think that, ‘Oh, this is really hurtful for me or this is really uncomfortable, I feel anxious, I feel whatever’. You just completely belittle yourself like ‘I would have died to have been here so I can’t complain. You don’t even allow yourself to really comprehend or digest whatever is going on because you’re doing something that you’re supposed to love. Admittedly, a lot of this pressure was coming from himself but when he was still finding his feet artistically, it was a difficult conundrum to reconcile. On top of the industry pressure, large and interactive shows weren’t working for EDEN – They were an unnatural fit for someone who had grown up making vulnerable songs by himself in his bedroom.

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Almost making music that I wanted people to find it difficult to like… You kind of start testing the waters to see like, ‘how much can I get away with’ or ‘at what point is this all just gonna vanish?’ Yung Lean ended up doing way too much drugs and pushing glass shards into his skin because he didn’t think he existed anymore, whereas I just got really depressed and reclusive.” And like, to the point where I was sequencing I was making my first album Vertigo and I was like, ‘Oh, my god, there’s so many depressing songs in a row… It was like, kind of a ‘fuck you’. “The music just became really, really insular. I met so many people and that really fucked with my head, it was like a rude kind of introduction to the music industry… it just went from being this like little protective bubble of me and my friends on the internet, just doing whatever the fuck we wanted to being really intense”. People were flying in from London and America. I had cold calls, multiple meetings every day. “It just went nuts and I met with every label I’d ever heard of for like 10 weeks straight. ”I’d never spoken to a record label” he admits. It was second only to Macklemore on popular music blog aggregator and de facto internet music chart Hype Machine during its 2015 release and it led to a flurry of calls and emails. Which is like the opposite of what you need as well…” EDEN’s End Credits EP drew massive industry attention. “The way it took off for me and, you know, whatever was going on really, really fucked with my head”, he says. Jon explains from the backseat that success on his own terms still meant he was touring America before he really knew himself.

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The August heatwave means that once we are in the car we have the windows rolled down completely as we slalom between rush hour traffic. The problem that comes with being an innovator is, you often don’t have contemporaries to emulate or mentors to guide you down an unfamiliar path. Much like Odd Future were for DIY hip hop or Yung Lean for the half spaces between genres. So in a way, EDEN is one of the early blueprints for alt-pop pin ups. Nowadays, it’s possible to be both widely popular online and unknown to mainstream audiences. Even as late as 2016, Nialler9 commented on his absence from Irish music media saying, “How does an Irish musician sell out venues in Dublin, LA, New York, San Fran, London and Toronto without as much of a peep back home?”ĮDEN’s career could be characterised as an inseparable soup of competing ingredients. During his early success, if you weren’t tapped in, you wouldn’t know about him. Couple that with his mild distaste for social media and early preference for quasi-anonymous branding and he was a huge act ripe to be missed by journalists waiting for spoon-fed press releases. Rapid success in the Soundcloud era meant he had already left for London without ingraining himself in the local music scene. However, there are music fans in his hometown that haven’t heard of him.

Ten years afterr a space in time full album