Live Review: Ghostpoet ‘Sorry My Love, It’s You Not Me’ Ft. Lucy Rose

With a title like that, you want to hear what it’s all about. Luckily, the track is served up by one of London’s finest sons, the beautiful, melancholy and profound GHOSTPOET.

This latest song sounds ever so familiar to his other tracks – it’s no real departure from the likes of the bleak ‘Off Peak Dreams’ or the haunting ‘Cash and Carry Me Home’, but Ghostpoet has crafted a sound so uniquely his own, why shouldn’t he revel in it for a moment?

He has drafted in fellow London darling Lucy Rose to accompany him on the chorus, which lifts the song into a more melodic space. Rose is having a moment of her own with London-loving singles like ‘I Tried’, and the combination of the two capital city dwellers on Ghostpoet’s track makes for a distinctly UK sound.

The chorus states bluntly that "they’re just your forgettable". It’s daunting to think of people as irrelevant throwaway objects, but then again Ghostpoet has never shied away from telling it how it is. And it is like this sometimes, we do just forget and move on. It’s not that he’s emotionless, in fact far from it. He sings that ‘I wanna feel magic and stars, is that too much to ask?’. It’s just that Ghostpoet is honest and daring, unafraid to feel out what he really wants. Listening to his music, you really get the sense that he lives his life according to the old adage that, at the end of the day we’re all just in it for ourselves.

‘Sorry My Love, It’s You Not Me’ is taken from his new album Shedding Skin, which is out now.

Words by Katie Rowley

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