Visiting Hours, and the line I thought was my best Listen: Someone at work has a mum with Alzheimer's. He mentions it sometimes, the small accumulating things, and that was the inspiration. I'd been writing a lot of electropop for a stretch - UK club anthems, festival EDM, things designed for energy - and I wanted
Capybara Christmas, and the joke I almost wrote twice Listen: Watch: This one started with my eight-year-old daughter singing capybara stuff into Suno. The thing she gave me was less lyrics than a manifesto: Capybara, capybara, the cute and fluffy rodent The largest one in the world Because I love capybaras, do you? Because it's a capybara
Wildfire, and the same lesson dressed better Listen: Note: this one isn't going to streaming; YouTube only! Wildfire was my second song. After Avalanche, I'd half-noticed that the lyrics were thinner than they should have been, even if I couldn't yet say what was thin about them. So with Wildfire I
Avalanche, listened to honestly Listen here: or here: This was one of the first proper songs I made. Power ballad, big chorus, female vocal, the works. Suno did beautiful work with it - when I first heard it back I genuinely couldn't believe I'd had a hand in something that
Welcome... How I ended up writing pop songs in my study at midnight I'm Gareth. I work in data and systems for a corporate during the day. Most evenings, once my daughter is asleep, I have an hour or two before I should also be asleep. That window is
