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Artist Picks: Chalk

Hot on the heels of Chalk (aka Steven Stride)'s introspective and minimalist self titled debut album we sat down with Steven to ask him about his favourite track:



"I would say my favourite song off of my album is "Today Is Not That Day". There are a few reasons behind this choice, one of them being the fact that it feels like the underdog. It's the one song no one seems to comment on, and I don't see that as a bad thing. Lyrically it's a hard song to listen to, which brings me to my second reason, the lyrics.

The lyrics to this song were all written about a phone conversation I had with my brother Mike. This conversation went on for hours: we were both struggling a bit with life at the time, had pretty much got to a point where we were like "I don't think I can keep doing this, when is the relief ? When's the point when we can admit that this is as good as it gets?" Pretty depressing thoughts, but weirdly enough it helped. We both felt relieved to realise that we weren't the only ones who felt this way. It was no longer just me. I know it's a bit arrogant to think we were so special that we thought we were the only ones who felt this way, but that was not the case. When you're in a place like that you do feel like you're the only one.

At the end of the conversation, at about 2am, I started writing lyrics and pretty much finished the song by morning. It's close to the bone and out of all the songs on the album means the most to me. That's why it is my favourite song."

Chalk was released on September 2nd via Sonic Anhedonic Recording Co.

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