Top Tracks: Tyler Edwards – Since You Came Around

Call it what you will – naivety, optimism, being a hopeless romantic – but I’d like to believe there’s such thing as love at first sight. Sometimes when you meet someone there’s just an instant connection. Perhaps you have so many shared interests and experiences that you end up talking for hours and yet it feels like minutes. Or maybe you’re on the same wavelength to such a degree that you can say everything you need to and be understood with just a glance. Every so often we meet someone for the first time and it feels like we’ve known them all our lives – it only takes a small push to turn that initial spark into something deeper. The flipside however is that sometimes such meetings are with people who are only in our lives for a fleeting moment. To my mind ‘Since You Came Around’, the new single from Nashville based singer/songwriter Tyler Edwards, feels like the soundtrack to a Before Sunrise style meeting of two soulmates for the first, and last, time. With a dreamy, introspective and bittersweet quality that reminds me of The Paper Kites, it’s the sound of finding love, knowing it will slip through your fingers, and deciding to make the most of the one night you have together as at least that memory will last forever.

Top Tracks: Tyler Edwards – Between Your Arms

Much the same way that everything has a hint of magic when it’s hit by the golden glow of sunset, the right song can make any surrounding feel beautiful. No matter how broken and neglected the neighbourhood is, having the right music playing as you walk on by can make you see those streets in a new light. The soft hazy folk of ‘Between Your Arms’, and how it shimmers like dawn’s light through the morning mist, is a prime example. Even in the most bleak and grey concrete jungle, this song acts as your own secret garden. That one golden drop of goodness in your surroundings that shines all the brighter against the grim backdrop. Fitting in way, as it serves as a reminder that the right person can provide the same escape. No matter how loud the noise gets, how bitter and exhausting the people around you are, having just that one person that understands you and offers comfort without judgement can make a world of difference. You can sit back and survey the storm from your safe harbour.