Michael Robert Murphy has always found a home as a songwriter living inside his own head, and it has become apparent, that his musical path has been ultimately leading to a solo project.

Cut from the same Merseyside cloth as The Coral, The Stands, and The Zutons, Michael's writing and fronting of bands such as The Wicked Whispers had taken his music to audiences across the UK and Europe as well as earning him support from the UK’s mainstream press and radio. But now comes a change in the wind.

Michael's new material (which was the framework for a solo project) although was written before Covid-19 changed our world, feels now hauntingly relevant. The process was about following the songs, captured in their rawest form, from the early demo's to the studio, capturing the organic and emotional connection.

Debut single 'Out Of Sight' kicks things off with more upbeat pop sensabilities, but topically reacts to when we miss people no longer in our lifes, something the lockdown brought to everyone. Follow up single ‘Hollow World’, was the first song written after Michael’s to start a new path. Now also hauntingly on-point, Hollow World was the core idea for the emotional and raw songwriting frameworkfor the solo project “I was listening to R.E.M. and Father John Misty envying their direct action when it comes to being brutualy honest with his songwriting'

For this new chapter for Michael, the music can go anywhere but to begin, it had to be an 'open book' level of honesty...