Confronting Your Demons With MARTIN JACKSON From CONFYDE

Interview by Kris Peters
Many artists have written about their struggles with mental health,
but how many have written songs that actually sound like a mental
crisis? That notion was exactly what Martin Jackson from Confyde
set out to do when writing the songs for his latest three-track EP
A Cowards Stitches, which was released today.
Written in the aftermath of a relationship break-up, Jackson found
himself in unchartered waters, facing reality head-on after
professional advice forced him to confront his inner demons and
quantify them by bringing them screaming out of the shadows of his
mind and into the harsh reality of light. It was a process which
had the potential to be crippling, but given his love for and
aptitude of music, Jackson elected to relay his thoughts and
feelings through verse in an attempt to best deal with them.
The result is a schizophrenic trio of songs, ranging from the
twisted and sonically challenging title track to the brutally
honest Once Broken and the reflective Hxppy Nxw Yxxr, three songs
that delve into the mindset of a person whose personal struggles
are slowly manifesting into a tangible entity that can be
defeated.
Jackson sat down with HEAVY to take us deeper.
"The writing process was about the same," he measured when asked if
it was easier or harder to write songs that are deeply personal as
opposed to general views. "At the end of the day, it still comes
from a place of emotion, and things that I feel very strongly
about. It's just this time it happens to affect me and my personal
life. I think the process of recording and writing was easier. I
was certainly a lot more freeform this time, even though Confyde's
music is a bit more all over the place anyway, I always like to
think there's strong hooks and it's still quite accessible when it
needs to be. This time I kind of threw the rule book out a little
bit."
In the full interview, Martin takes us behind the reasons he
decided to take a more personal route on this release, dealing with
his struggles, writing them into songs and music and how that
process has helped, whether it was easier or harder to write such
personal songs and release them for public consumption, offers an
in-depth analysis into each of the three songs individually, what
he hopes others might take out of the EP and more.


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