Photography by Inigo Blake

Look at me, lend me your ears for a moment…

Music has always played an important role throughout the life of South London based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer Quinn Oulton. He picked up the saxophone at a very young age and he started taking his first steps in the UK jazz scene. His new single ‘Better’ – out of his forthcoming debut album ‘Alexithymia’ due this May – is a truly beautiful minimalist production, blending melancholic, deep layers with with meaningful, poetic and immersive lyricism.

Quinn explains: “My album ‘Alexithymia’ dissects events from different relationships, whether family, friends, or romantic, presented as a single story from start to finish. Obsession, frustration, passion, false hope, grief, self-pity, helplessness, and acceptance are all part of this story. I wrote it in this way because I was trying to work out why I connect so much with sad or melancholic music, and I realised that maybe listening to that music was filling a hole that I didn’t know I had. It was comforting to hear somebody process their own troubles outwardly when I didn’t feel I had a way, or even a reason, to do so myself. Writing the album has been an extremely therapeutic process as I’ve been able to seek out difficult parts of my life that I’d buried because I couldn’t process them at the time.”

He continues: “I think a lot of people, particularly men, struggle to recognise and process their own emotions. It makes it very hard to share them with others, and it’s something that needs addressing to allow for healthier relationships with other people and yourself.”

Enjoy the track below: