My second EP has just dropped! What?!

Disconnected is an EP made of dark moments in my life, moments that make me feel like my brain has become… disconnected from the rest of me. Made of 7 tracks, Disconnected is the most raw and open project I’ve worked on to date, looking at relationships, friendships, loss, fear, confidence, anxiety and sass. The inner workings of my brain explored in 19 minutes and 48 seconds.

So, what are the tracks and what do they mean to me?

1) Disconnected

The title track of the EP, Disconnected was influenced by an experience I had with my friends one night in spring. Sat by the sea at night we saw a continuous line of ‘stars’ floating through the sky, stretching right back and over the cliffs behind us. For a few seconds, before we realised the ‘stars’ were hundreds and hundreds of drones floating on the edge of space that Elon Musk had organised, we hypothesised what these lights could be. We stared in shock and awe at these lights, and I had a weird twinge of melancholy, insignificance and weightlessness as I watched them move across the night sky. Disconnected was written with that very feeling in mind; for me to hold on to that feeling, as melancholy as it was.

2) Spilt Feelings

In a totally different mood and feeling from the track before, Spilt Feelings is a sassy, confident ‘f*** you’ pop banger about people taking me for granted. Spilt Feelings was based was based on the saying ‘don’t cry over spilt milk’ which I had altered to ‘don’t cry over spilt feelings.’ I added milkshake sounds throughout the songs to add to the pink bubblegum, milkshake theme. Spilt Feelings is my most popular track to date, with three plays on BBC Music Introducing, features in online magazines and over 700 streams, which is mind blowing to me.

3) July

The track and half the lyrics for July were written back before I even released Gone Now (Okay) from my first EP. July is written about a relationship that never even started from a couple of years ago. The person I was talking to didn’t understand me, or how I was so we ended up calling it quits after a particular conversation in my car. The song is a journey from the start of the relationship to the sudden and necessary end. The rainy, echoing sound of July was the basis for the whole EP being as dark, rainy and melancholy as it is.

4) Twenty Twenty

Twenty Twenty is an upbeat, satirical track about the madness that was the year 2020, poking fun at politics, lockdowns and trends from last year. I started writing Twenty Twenty in May 2020, and that was before the first lockdown was even finished. I wanted to say something about what was going on, I felt like my head was going to explode watching Covid-19 case numbers sky-rocket, seeing how the UK government was handling things and hearing people talk about conspiracies.I wrote this song using heavy influence from the news, Tik Tok trends and what was going on in my own life which makes Twenty Twenty one of my favourite songs on this EP. I added sarcastic lyrics like “a vaccines come to take our freedom away” to really make a point about how crazy conspiracists online had become. Twenty Twenty was released on August 13th 2021.

5) Don’t Wanna Go

Don’t Wanna go had its own blog post about the meaning and lyrics back when it was released in July 2021. Click here to read that post.

6) A Secret I’ll Never Tell (Acoustic)

A Secret I’ll Never Tell is the most popular track from my first EP, and when playing around with my ukulele in June of 2020, I found an acoustic way to play this track and put it on the back burner for a future YouTube or Tik Tok video. In May of 2021 I remembered I’d planned to do an acoustic version of ASINT and instead recorded it while recording the EP in June, with my producer Pete Turtle. For more about the meaning of ASINT, click here!

7) Twenty Twenty (Crow Remix)

After the success of my first collaboration with Crow, I had to work with him again. Not only as my dear friend but as a talented D&B artist. He had the whole EP to chose from, so Crow picked Twenty Twenty as he liked the sound of it and started working on the remix. During the process, Crow told me he had made 4 remixes but sent me the remix called ‘Reba 4.’ I was absolutely beaming after hearing 30 seconds of hearing the song! I was blown away by it, I also loved that Crow had coincidentally gone so dark with it, using rain sounds which worked perfectly with the dark, rainy theme I had in mind.

This EP has been in the works for over two years and I am beyond excited to finally have it released and out for everyone to hear! If you haven’t had the chance to go stream Disconnected, click here!

Many thanks to my Mum, Dad, Hayley, Ally, Molly, Tee and all my friends, I couldn’t have done it without your continued support. I would also like to thank Melita Dennett and the team at BBC Music Introducing South, A to D of Indie, In Your Ears Music, Dan Potter, Michael Tanner and everyone around the world supporting my music, YouTube and Tik Tok, I’m so grateful!

Keep streaming, dancing, sharing and most of all, take care!

- Reba -