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Love & Anxiety

by Man at Sea

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1.
All I Ask 03:29
For you to notice That's all I ask for For you to notice When I can't walk through the door When I can't walk through the door For you to hold me Thats all I ask for For you to carry me When I can't find the floor Those times I can't find the floor Today I can barely move my body Though the fight never comes I'm always ready to run And so For you to love me That's all I ask for For you to love me Though we've been here before I know we've been here before
2.
Be careful with those threads They'll soon unravel the more that is said And be careful with you heart It'll soon travel given the chance It goes down, down, down To the bottom of the sea Down, down, down, Longing to beat Be careful with your dreams They come back to haunt you From wherever you buried them deep For nothing's as it seems You have to let go in order to keep From going down, down, down To the bottom of the sea Down, down, down, Longing to breathe And it's a terrible thing When you know it's the end It's a terrible thing When you know you'll just be friends But it's a wonderful thing The thing that we had It's a wonderful thing That we found And it sounds like this It sounds like this It sounds like this
3.
The Gods who make the seasons Have all put down their tools They can't find any reason Why they've been made fools That's why you're left here standing Crying at the sun The path's been cleared for landing And you've nowhere to run Down where they house the feelings They're working over time There's too much fuel for burning Too much pain to mine That's why you're paying money To just say to someone The paths been cleared for landing And you've nowhere to run Until your hearts been broken You've never seen the night Until you've been cracked open You've never seen your light

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"It's a terrible thing when you know it's the end"

Man at Sea returns with his most brutally honest record to date, 'Love & Anxiety': three hauntingly beautiful piano/string based songs which capture a songwriter dealing with existential angst and coming to terms with the break up of a long term, very loving relationship. The EP is nothing less than an attempt to capture, in sound, the feeling of how anxiety can affect a relationship and how we sometimes have to break free from things in order to grow.

Recorded at Humm studios in Bristol with stunning musicianship from the local scene and mixed by local producers Tom Campbell (Michael Kiwanuka, SAULT, Boci) and Jacob Bright (My Octopus Mind).

Man at Sea says: "I was trying to come up with an interesting or poetic title for this EP but as I get older I'm finding I want to be less ambiguous and generally more to the point both in my songwriting and how I present it to the world. Therefore this EP is about exactly what it says on the tin... Earlier this year, I found myself breaking up with my longtime partner of 8 years in order to move past a state of acute anxiety and towards putting my time fully into my music which is what I've always wanted to do.

Track one 'All I Ask' describes how anxiety can affect a relationship. Track two 'Terrible Thing' was my attempt to talk about the reason for the break up and to document 'in sound' the 'wonderful thing' that has had to be let go of. And track three 'Song for Lauryn' was inspired by a phone call with my friend Lauryn who was going through similar mid-30s type big life-changes; in writing her advice that 'the path is clear for landing, and you've nowhere to run' I have since realised I was inevitably giving myself the same piece of advice... "

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released December 1, 2023

Words & Music by David Hewson

Violin - Anneka Sutcliffe
Viola - Laura Wilson
Cello - James Gow
Drums - Pete Warner

Recorded at Humm studios in Bristol by Dom Mitchison

Track 1mixed by Tom Campbell

Track 2 & 3 mixed by Jacob Bright

All tracks mastered by Shawn Joseph at Optimum mastering

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Man at Sea Bristol, UK

Man at Sea is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer David Hewson.

Described as a cross between Rufus Wainwright and Thom Yorke, his songs combine sparse arrangements with soaring melodies, shot through with lyrics that have an existential thread and often a dark undertone, dealing with themes of identity and the modern-day loss of spirituality. ... more

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