The song is a dream; wistful, and quietly desperate rather than overtly tragic. It inhabits the moment when you’ve become aware that life is unpredictable and that you can’t control everything, but you still have one person you’re willing to believe in. Essentially saying “I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I’m choosing you.” “You’re my lucky one”. 

Recorded by Paul Scott at Static Attractor IV Sydney; mixed by Steve Melville at Burning Boat II, Perrysberg, USA; mastered in Tasmania, Australia by William Bowden. 

The Insufferable Paul Scott is a Sydney-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose music occupies the fertile territory between indie pop, post-punk eccentricity and beautifully crafted lo-fi song. His work is characterised by melodic immediacy, skewed observation and an irreverent intelligence: pop music with its tie loosened, its shoes kicked off and its eyebrow permanently raised.

In 2021 he recorded a pivotal album, ‘Tea and Medals‘. Recorded during lockdown and subsequently released in January 2022, its twelve songs turn isolation into invention, folding jangling guitars, synth-pop textures and understated experimentalism around Scott’s dry, often oblique lyricism. His collaboration with Steve Melville, who co-produced and mixed the record, also deepened an important musical relationship dating back to their earlier work together. 

The coming years saw a host of releases that amplified Scott’s argument with the limitations of genre and productivity. In 2025 came the twelve-track album ‘For They Are Sailors Just Like You And Seasick Just The Same‘ co-produced and mixed by LA musician and producer Gregg Leonard. 

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