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A Reason For This

A Reason For This is a Scottish pop-punk solo artist who recently released a self-titled EP. It’s definitely pop-punk, but is entirely acoustic, with only guitar and his voice. The five songs are heartfelt and simple, with earnest vocals.

It’s slow to start, with Stuck, a song that experiments with a few different and interesting melodies. You can hear him change chords, something I always like in acoustic music. Once it picks up, it’s very upbeat. The repeats of can I start over are relatable and calming.

This Place Is Still The Same sounds like classic pop-punk, or at least what pop-punk I’ve heard. It has hard and fast guitar, and starts with the singer yelling Fuck!. It’s great played acoustic, but it would be interesting to hear with a full electric band.

You Were Right is slower and has a different pace than before. It’s sweet and effortless. The Home In My Head sounds similar, but with more anger a la This Place Is Still The Same. I like how strong the beat is, even without drums.

It ends with Changing, a good and angry conclusion. It’s probably my favourite out of the five.

The EP is abrupt, just five songs in time. It’s not saying anything particularly profound or revolutionary, but it doesn’t have to. It’s pleasant, with good guitars and loud vocals. I like that it’s acoustic, it’s something different amid all the noisy pop-punk out there.

I don’t like it as much as other new music I’ve heard, but it’s good and interesting. I would rate it 3/5 stars.

Find it at https://areasonforthis.bandcamp.com

-written by mars, march 27th 2018

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More positive vibes on the EP. So happy 😊

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“Stuck”. Stuck was a song I wrote when I was going through a lot, this was round about January/February 2017. I was doing my best to be a great dad, I was trying my best to be a great boyfriend, but I had no job, no house, I was struggling to find energy for University, my family were completely AWOL, I had nobody that I really could go to for help or talk to because I just felt…well….Stuck. So I remember I was sitting in my car thinking about different video games I wanted to play, then I thought “what if life was like a video game?”. The idea of being stuck at something or failing, but you get to start over. This song was if I could reset this level of life I’ve been given, I’d do things differently. But in reality life isn’t a game and you don’t get to start over. All you can do is your best and hope one day everything falls into place. I hope this song shows people that there’s hope no matter what you’re going through. 🍕

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“This Place Is Still The Same”

I started writing this song back in December 2015 but it was one of those songs I had shelved and came back to because I just couldn’t seem to finish it. I felt with this song it didn’t need to be long or have a big chorus, it just had to tell it’s story. I took a lot of inspiration from a band I love called The Story So Far’s songs and I wanted to right a song that was fast and wasn’t too polished like acoustic music is supposed to be. More raw and hard hitting. This song was about when I was moving home to home to find places to stay, I would sit and say to myself “nothings changed and everything’s the same”. It was the idea that everyday feels like it gets repeated. Like you’re stuck on some kind of loop and all I’ve ever wanted is for someone or a UFO to take me out of these places. There’s a lyric in this song that’s one of the best I’ve written. I remember waiting up one night praying to god asking why everything kept going wrong? So in the song there’s a part where it gets kind of vulnerable before it leads to the messy ending, which I hope people really like 😊

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“You Were Right”

You were right was the most recent song I had written for the EP. Kind of a last minute, but personally it’s my favourite. It’s a song about how I’ve never been good with people telling me things about how life is or what’s in store. I remember getting tarot card readings from a psychic when I was out drinking (I could of been drunk as I dreamt this), but she told me she saw a kid dancing to music, but the kid was sad and a little terrified, as if they were running from something. I remember at this point my life was quite good so I kind of shrugged it off at the time. But when my break up completely floored me, I remember dancing around in my kitchen to music completely scared, angry, broken, happy. All these mixed emotions. So I wrote a song based on my ability to somehow have everything screw up, but I’ll just dance around and pretend everything’s okay, which I’m sure a lot of people do……I hope…..my dancing is really awful though…..

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“The Home In My Head”

The home in my head was probably the hardest song to write about. All my life if I ever let someone in I end up somehow getting hurt. So I’ve learned what to give away and what not to say. Because of that a lot of people have said I’m not very open or I’m mysteriously hiding things. Well yeah! If I gave everything away I would be able to hold onto anything on my own? Plus people are evil…..or am I just cynical? So this song is about how I live within my own mind a lot of the times, because to me it’s the safest place in the world and it’s one of the few things I can control.

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“Changing”

When I was a kid, I used to be such a confident bag of joy, cheek & optimism. I used to be able to talk to anybody and dream up the most random things. I used to think life was amazing and nothing could ever hurt in life. Eventually when you grow up, for most people you realise there’s so much shit in life. There’s so many things you need to go through and for a lot of us it changes you as a person. This song was about how we lose our youthful spirits and change for the better or worse. I really closely related with this song and I hope many other people do too 🤟