It was only during the Covid pandemic that Szmierek decided to start setting his poetry to music and making it public. He gained widespread attention in 2022 with single Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fallacy. He is now a verified BBC Radio 6 Music darling and music industry insiders cannot stop shouting about his new album, which focuses on themes of coincidence, loss, loneliness and the oft-overlooked birdsong that soundtracks it all. While the themes are not entirely jubilant, Szmierek’s strength is that he manages to translate his own experiences of life in our troubled times into something hopeful. “I feel…
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