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Experience Music Group has worked with major names like Sony, Disney, and American Airlines — what have been some of the biggest lessons you’ve learned from operating across both the music and brand partnership worlds One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that the best partnerships happen when there’s genuine alignment between the artist’s …

Your track Enough For You feels very personal, what moment or experience pushed you to write it so openly? I’ve always been the kind of person who goes all or nothing with a relationship. I always told girls, right at the start of talking, that I’m not one to waste time and that I wanted …

What inspired you to write “Rock to the Top,” especially its vulnerable opening? Well, literally is part of my life. When creativity strikes, there´s not much you can do. Except take it as a hobby and lie to yourself that it´s not really your call. So I chose the truth. I was writing songs alone …

Hello, Nathan! “Drunk Dial Baby” feels like it came from a real place. Did it? And how long did it take before you could laugh about it enough to write the song? It came from a real place that morphed into this other character’s story completely. The lyrics started with songwriting partner Candace Crockett after …

Hello! Your influences are all over the place but “Riff Raff” doesn’t sound like any of them. How do you make something that feels that original? It’s more or less trial by error and letting the rhythm lead itself through to a plausible narrative speaking volumes along the way; more like a tidal wall of …

Hello, Ervin. Was there a single moment during recording where you felt this album had become something truly special? Weirdly, and sadly, it was when my friend and producer of my last three albums, Aeron Z Jones died. He had finished producing all the tracks and then he was gone!  The record shifts between quiet …

Hello, Cloud. “In My Dream” blurs the line between dreams and reality, what inspired you to explore that emotional space in this song? I had big dreams of achieving great musical success like Nirvana, but in reality, I faced constant setbacks. This song was born from the frustration of repeatedly going back and forth between …

What inspired you to create Brunio’s Mind as an evolving musical project rather than a traditional album? In a world saturated with singles and ephemeral tracks with features just to grow numbers, we are concerned, as bizarre as it may seem, with leaving a timeless legacy. We want something that might beunderstood differently depending on …

What was the inspiration behind Riptide?  Coming out of a relationship where you’re both hurting each other, realising that sometimes each of you is pulling the other into rough waters How did you capture the push and pull tension of the song musically?  We wrote this high energy single with a mix of big riffs, …

What was the inspiration behind “Верланг”? ‘Верланг’ is the Russian transliteration we chose for the name ‘Verlang’.The song is about a girl I met on my way to a festival in São Paulo. Her name was Paula Verlang. We met and, inspired by her, I decided to write a tribute that captured the mood I …