Sounds

I like To Tell Stories starts with my teenage self discovering adult vices. The first tracks capture the pleasure, indulgence, and thrill of these new experiences. Eventually, as with many of us I got lost in them and we get to Intrusive Thoughts which is by far the most experimental piece on the album. It acts as an anti-climax of the album and it's a turning point where I shift from indulgence to reflection. The next track Give It Life is an effort to get back to a normal life but its quieter and boring, in comparison to the party lifestyle. However, the feelings always come back and the final 3 tracks see me appreciating life with a new light of joy and maturity.

But I like To Tell Stories is also a night on the dance floor at a festival or a club going from one room to the next to: moving as one with 500 others on a packed dance floor, to laughing with an older guy at the bar, to peacefully watching the trees sway in the wind, to dancing on your own in the night sky.

And I like To Tell Stories is also the one memory you had from long ago that made you feel like you've never felt before, or the relationship with that person you won't ever forget, that day you ended up exhausted and full of life, that dream you know one day will happen, that night you thought would never end, I like To Tell Stories is anything and everything you want it to be.

And that's the most beautiful thing about music. Everyone can listen to the same thing and relate to it from different experiences and memories yet we all share those feelings. Music tells us that even though we are different we are not that different. Music comforts us, it brings us together, it lets us know that we are not alone, that other people feel these things too and have been through what we have been.

Music reminds us we are all Birds Of One.