Honesty is usually the best policy – especially when it comes to being honest with ourselves. The first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge its existence. Yet we’re constantly obscuring the truth from the world, ourselves included, using that oft told lie: “I’m fine”. When it comes to the storm raging inside our heads, all that pain, stress and worry that we carry, dragging us down like heavy iron chains, our first instinct is always to bury it deep in the hope it goes away. That’s sadly not how it works. A wound left untreated will fester, why should one within our mind be any different? ‘Hurt’ – the raw and haunting new single from singer/songwriter Philippe Nash – is all about accepting the burdens we carry. Even if its something so deep and profound that we’ll carry it for years to come, the only way to ultimately come to terms and make peace with it is to feel what needs to be felt. From the mournful string arrangements and dark grungy flourishes, to the tenderness and vulnerability in Philippe’s crooning vocals that evokes the likes of Thom Yorke and Elliot Smith, the sombre slow burn of ‘Hurt’ is the kind of track that reaches into murky recesses of your mind and drags your demons into the light.