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Message To Bears Releases ‘Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts’

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With ‘Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts’, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, better known as Message To Bears, offers his most expansive and emotionally resonant album to date. Released today via Lost Birds Records, the record is a masterclass in ambient-folk craftsmanship, built from quiet textures, slow surges, and cinematic patience.

Opening track “Turbines Over Oceans” sets the tone with a hush: layered strings, found sounds, and the first of many melodies that feel more like weather than music. As the album unfolds, from the plaintive brass swells of “Knots Tied in Grass” to the flickering beauty of “Half Light”, it becomes clear that this isn’t background music. It asks to be sat with.

The focus track “Capsize” is a standout: a delicate blend of folktronica and ambient orchestration, tracing the edge between surrender and survival. Strings, piano, and barely-there choral harmonies drift above a bed of field recordings (water, breath, static) all stitched together with ghostlike care. It’s a piece built for walking, for grieving, for starting again.

With Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts, Message To Bears continues his quiet ascent; a steady presence on the fringe of modern classical and electronic music, building worlds one whisper at a time.

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Megan Burke Turns Personal Experience into Pop Catharsis on ‘Not All Men, Apparently’

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Megan Burke’s debut EP Not All Men, Apparently arrives with a title designed to provoke conversation, but beneath its pointed framing lies a deeply personal collection of songs rooted in lived experience. The project sees the Irish artist tackling themes of heartbreak, deception and emotional recovery with an unfiltered honesty that has become increasingly rare within contemporary pop.

Produced by Hungarian hitmaker Áron Somody, the EP documents Burke’s journey through a series of difficult relationships, transforming private frustrations into universally relatable songwriting. Rather than presenting neat resolutions, the songs lean into complexity, examining the lingering impact of toxic dynamics while charting a gradual path towards self-awareness. It is this willingness to confront uncomfortable truths that gives the record its emotional weight.

Among the collection’s standout moments is Make Me, the focus track that introduces a welcome sense of levity. Written as a break from the darker material surrounding it, the song captures a more playful side of Burke’s personality, embracing independence and spontaneity without abandoning the candid perspective that defines the wider project. Its inclusion adds balance to a release that might otherwise feel relentlessly introspective.

Burke’s rise has been built largely on her ability to connect directly with audiences, amassing a substantial online following while earning notable milestones including a No.1 iTunes chart position and performances at some of Ireland’s biggest venues. With Not All Men, Apparently, she delivers her most cohesive artistic statement yet, confirming her status as a compelling new voice in Irish pop and a songwriter unafraid to tell difficult stories.

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