Matt Perriment - Atlantic Skies

Matt Perriment - Atlantic Skies Release date: Friday, September 29th 2023 V2 Records Atlantic Skies includes a.o. the following tracks: “Atlantic Skies”, “Moonlight Renegade”, “Auckland”, “Both Sides Now LIVE: 16 dec - TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht "Atlantic Skies is a coming-of-age album, documenting the trials and tribulations of life through your 20s, growing older, falling in and out of love and dealing with mental health. Written over a decade, the album tracks 10 years of love, life and travels across the UK, Bermuda and North America (across the Atlantic).

The album is split into three parts representing three distinct moments of my life: ‘Suddenly’ and ‘Blockbuster’ are about my move to London at 18, and the realization that I’m not all that I thought I was, and suddenly being a very small fish in a bid pond. That feeling never really changed throughout the decade, and then suddenly you hit late twenties and feel pressure to have your life all together. 

 In that time, I had spent some of it in a long-distance relationship with someone who moved to North America, and it all ended up mountain in Vancouver. ‘Vancouver Reverie’ where I spent three days in hostels after the breakup as I couldn’t find an earlier flight home and was taken in by some Irish people for three days, where I was in this daydream reverie state, ignoring what just happened. 

 

Throughout this decade, some really close people to me have suffered with addiction and mental health. ‘Don’t Fade Away’ is a call out to someone really close to me going through some real issues, and a hope that they do not lose sight of the bright and vibrant person they have always been. Surviving equally deals with someone very close to me who went through addiction and struggles, and a call out that when someone is struggling, we have be there as support to help them and bring them out. 

 The last section of the album is really positive, from ‘Everything’, a true love ballad through to Atlantic Skies, written after spending a lot of time on the beaches in Bermuda where my partner is from, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and both of these songs ties everything together, about how this life is full of beauty if you take a moment to look up, despite all the tough times. 

 The album is an open book, documenting a real coming of age decade and the first decade of becoming an adult. Building the album over a decade gives the listener a really broad unique perspective of a full, honest and real existence at such a pinnacle moment in any person’s life. Overall, there's beauty in the madness and hope to be found in the world full of hardship if you take a moment to look for it."

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