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1. SCAR
2. HAVE U FOUND WHAT UR LOOKING FOR?
3. SKINNY SKINNY
4. GREYHOUND
5. MATTER OF TIME (INTERLUDE)
6. SUNSHINE
7. THE SWEETNESS
8. I'M TO BLAME
9. DRIVE
10. PERFECT LIE

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I wrote a song about media consumption, self love,

I wrote a song about media consumption, self love, and a touch of how it’s felt to be in quarantine, heres the lyrics.

// SUNSHINE //

Written by
Ashton irwin & Mathew Pauling

// Verse 1 //

I’ve been living my life
But it’s not how it looks

I’ve been giving it time
But that’s all that it took

So what now?

You’ve been feeding me lies
Now it’s all that I know

I’ve been eating you up
How am I supposed to grow?

So what now?

~

// PRE //

Stop watching the news
You’re something they use to
Scare you just like a bad dream

wake up tomorrow
you’ll cast a shadow on
pavements that you’re yet to see

// CHORUS //

See the
sunshine

Just like the first time

See the
Sunshine

Just like the first time

Not just today
Not just tomorrow
But now till
Forever and ever

See the
Sunshine
See the
Sunshine

// VERSE 2 //

I’ve been living my life
in a tiny tool box

Now I’m locked in the house
like I live in Fort Knox

So what now?

Now I’m thinking
My life could be more than it’s been!

I should meet other people and see what they mean

So what now?

// PRE 2 //

All my misfortunes
All of my triumphs
All of my satellite dreams

Expensive perfumes
Ladies do not loose
Playing but not on the team

// CHORUS //

See the
sunshine
Just like the first time

See the
sunshine
Just like the first time

Not just today
Not just tomorrow
But now till
Forever and ever

See the
Sunshine
See The
Sunshine

// END //

Taken on film camera by
@kaykay 💚

Let’s talk drums just for a moment. If you’re

Let’s talk drums just for a moment. If you’re my neighbour and you’re reading this, thank you for putting up with matt and I’s noise, we only wanted to make a bangin album with awesome drums. Sorry!

So we started off trying to mimic the way John bonham’s drums were recorded from @ledzeppelin . Minimal mic’s and a massive room sound. After many noise complaints, I moved the drums into my basement and set up the microphones in there. The sound actually ended up being way better because of @matthew.pauling’s techniques using vintage microphones and getting the phasing right in such a weird concrete space. I loved learning from matt how to get a great drum recording, and I am so pleased with the drums on Superbloom. - A i

This image to me is holy. Once upon a time I wou

This image to me is holy.

Once upon a time I would’ve celebrated something like releasing an album with 2 shots of bullet rye whisky to start, followed by 10 to 15 bourbon and diet cokes, followed by whatever else I could drink and still be coherent enough to enter the dark place I used to go to. Doesn’t sound like celebrating a good thing to me.

This image shows trust, community, friendship and understanding. I haven’t felt this close to people ever. We gathered in the desert to celebrate our work on superbloom. I have forgotten many things in my life. This memory will not be forgotten, but close and dear to me, forever.

( COVID- 19 testing and precautions were taken prior this celebration to keep everyone involved safe )

The Guitar Solo in Greyhound To commemorate matt

The Guitar Solo in Greyhound

To commemorate matts agreement and hard work to make Superbloom with me, During the process I bought him a @gibsonguitar 1968 SG from @andrewberkeleymartin

A guitarist like @matthew.pauling never boasts about his guitar skills. Although he has applied himself to his axe work for 20+’s years. The solo in GREYHOUND is monstrous. The phrasing and tone are sophisticated and vicious. Sending love to matt for playing some incredible guitar on SUPERBLOOM.

Greyhound. Greyhounds dart around a racetrack lig

Greyhound.

Greyhounds dart around a racetrack lightning fast. They eat lean and are trained to win and NEVER loose. A greyhound race consists of multiple dogs that chase a fake white rabbit. Never catching the rabbit, never receiving the reward, and if they don’t come 1st 2nd or 3rd, they never race again.
in this song I use the greyhound race as a metaphor for people that work themselves to death.

I come from a town where people work so hard their bodies are filled with pain by 40, a place where the suns screaming hot heat is so extreme they sent us home from school sometimes. The Families in this town are built and burnt to the ground by a strict code of put up and shut up. Be tough and hide weakness, because life is fucking hard. The towns people never get a breather, from the constant work grind cycle, to just continue to provide for their families. Never getting to think about what they truly want to do, or wanted to do with their lives. Having Dedicated every hour or their lives to hard manual labor, a trade, or something like my own mom does.

My mother currently works in a senior living home / Alzheimer’s Ward night Nurse. The job is tough and she’s full of care and love for everyone that lives there.
A literal angel.
She’s worked hard every day of her life, and certainly every day since I can remember. She’s never given up, and she’s always been tough as nails and gotten through absolutely any type of bullshit the world threw at her. A woman so tough that I didn’t even need a father to learn how to be a man. Thank you mum.

Greyhound is my own perspective on the work and grind cycle that we experience in life. Greyhound is a tribute to resilience and strength, and a song for all the people who never give up, and never let the world beat them.

In many ways I am the greyhound as well, and always have been, with a deep desire to push forwards and never take backwards steps even if I catch the rabbit, I’ll always be on the track racing, cause that’s the way society made me.
But if I don’t work hard for my dreams?
Who will.

- A i

The Illustration of greyhound in image #2 is by the incredible @gianniarone, let’s talk more about him later!

ambitions like releasing a record have swirled aro

ambitions like releasing a record have swirled around my brain since I was 10 years old listening to Bullet In A Bible by @greenday & playing covers of Holiday. My introduction to music was Paul McCartney’s “live and let die” and my stories and walk of life dance along to the soundtrack of a million other songwriters I admire. If you got time, take time, to listen to my record Superbloom, and let it fill you with light.

- A i

Waking up today, my alarm went off and I launched

Waking up today, my alarm went off and I launched for my phone. I need to know what does the world think of SUPERBLOOM?

SUPERBLOOM is officially here. I hope you find pos

SUPERBLOOM is officially here. I hope you find positivity and a welcoming feeling to my little world of music. I have enjoyed every single step of making this record and am a better person today because of it, and look forward to what is to come!

S U P E R B L O O M I haven’t experienced a fe

S U P E R B L O O M

I haven’t experienced a feeling like this before, over the next 24 hr’s my solo record will be released around the world. Happy Bloom!

Image captured by
@kaykay

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