Gold Rush Kid (Apple Music Edition)

I would say that 50% of it is festival singalong songs and 50% of it is reflective.

I did five weeks in a flat alone and had an awful lot of conversations with myself. A big part of that was about the idea that, from whatever age, promoting yourself is an odd thing. And I think I felt very locked into ‘this is who you are.’ And it didn’t take much to be like, ‘Well, that’s not true. There’s a lot of you. And that’s true of all of us.’ Naturally, once we started writing it, it was going to be a positive song.

Both records before this one, I have tied to a journey of some sort. The first record I roamed around Europe for a month and kept journals; the second record I went and stayed at Tamara’s in Barcelona and kept journals. It’s almost professional-level people-watching and I loved it. That’s what feels different about jumping into this album: It feels less runaway and more like, ‘Well, hang on, how are we approaching this thing? Because this is going to eat up all of our time and let’s approach it sensibly.’

In the past, this thing’s been quite overwhelming, unappealing and scary, but the truth is you love it. You’ve seen places you never thought you’d see, you’ve met people you never thought you’d meet and you’ve lived a life that you couldn’t have predicted so far. More than anything, you know it’s not going to last forever. It’s a gold rush, and so throughout the album, that’s what I hear. Be the gold rush kid.

—via Apple Music

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