A Farewell To Reason EP

Automatic Tasty departs slightly from his pastoral acid sound and picks up the microphone for a collection of melancholic pop songs entitled ‘A Farewell To Reason’. From the side-eyed sarcasm of ‘A Happy Town’ to the reflective urgency of ‘Wake Up Dead’, the album traverses landscapes of sorrow and good humour – representing a stoic acceptance of the problems of modern life and a yearning for something different. ‘Something special happened with these songs – I’ve never had a desire to sing or anything, but the words and melodies all kind of fell out of the cosmos fully formed’. While some pieces such as ‘Ballad For A Modern Man’ convey a certain urban sense of loneliness and isolation, others like ‘Onward Forward’ are more optimistic. ‘These songs are my own attempt at navigating a certain melancholy which was hanging around me at the time I think. They’re very dear to me’.