KU-High-Album Was The One He Was Supposed To Make (AUDIO): “I took this album, the previous album, that had a title and everything, 13 songs, took it in, played it for my inner circle of people, my team, people I trust, in February 2023, and was so excited to play it, and I must have got four or five songs in, and I could feel my own conviction level just deflating about this album. I said, it’s not it, is it? It’s not it, is it? And they’re like, well, you tell me, it’s your record. And I’m like, it’s not, I know it’s not. There’s like a few really strong songs on here. And then the others are, they’re strong too, but everything’s just a bit the same. It all was the same. And I was gutted because I knew that it wasn’t gonna be a quick time between that moment and whatever the record was gonna be to finish. I knew that was gonna take a long time. Sure enough, it took another year of writing and recording. This is the weirdest thing. I’ve made a lot of records. I usually have a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. And I had that with this other start. And it didn’t pan out. And so I was sort of thrown. I’m like, well, I don’t know what to do. And I know this sounds weird. It may not sound weird to certain people, but some people might think I’m completely loopy. But there were several songs. Messed Up As Me was one of them. And there was a few other songs that felt like they were saying to me, we don’t belong here, we belong on this other record, so take us with you and have faith in us and get back in the studio and write, and you’ll see this new record will happen with us in there, and it will be the record we belong to, because we don’t belong with this record. And I did it, I trusted the songs, I moved them over, went back to the drawing board and built outwards from those songs. And man this record came together. 40 minutes running time top to bottom and it was absolutely the record that I was meant to make but wasn’t the one I set out to make.”
