enrich: (verb) improve or enhance the quality or value of. ARTIST.....: Josef Salvat TITLE......: modern anxiety LABEL......: Liberation Records GENRE......: Pop RIP DATE...: 2019-11-14 RETAIL DATE: 2019-11-15 RUNTIME....: 06:16 TRACKS.....: 2 SIZE.......: 14.67MB QUALITY....: 320kbps 44.1kHz CODEC......: MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) ENCODER....: LAME URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bg54nla6fqyo4hw3pibxq2fdmu4 Tracklist: ---------- 01. modern anxiety 03:02 02. alone 03:14 Notes: ------ Ditching a potential law career to chase his musical dreams in London, Josef Salvat left Australia for the UK in 2012. He'd scored himself a manager on a previous trip to England, where he'd been spruiking a five-song demo CD he happily admits was "terrible". That connection led to an introduction to producer Rich Cooper (Banks, Mystery Jets, Razorlight), the pair finding their groove on songs such as "This Life" and "Hustler". UK and US blogs jumped all over Salvat after he posted the tracks on Soundcloud; now, following the release of his debut EP In Your Prime (featuring the Home & Away-endorsed "Open Season"), Australian audiences are cottoning on to the singer, who is now based in Paris.More inspired by the intelligent pop he heard coming from the UK (think Florence + the Machine, Adele, Lily Allen) than the law degree he was completing in Canberra, Salvat moved to Spain (he has family in Barcelona) to be closer to the action. He finished his studies by correspondence while shopping around his demo. "There was a sound coming out of London that I had wanted to be part of. And then once I got over there that sound had kind of had its run, and things were changing into what is now this kind of UK garage sound, like Disclosure and Jessie Ware and all that kind of stuff. [But] I had it in my head that it was going to be over there [that things happened for me] because that's where the sound was and I got a bite so I followed that."Raised on his parents' record collection - heavy on classical music with some Bruce Springsteen, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday thrown in - Salvat's first musical crushes of his own were the Spice Girls, Aqua and Coldplay. He wrote his first song when he was 13. "That first song was really good, that's what kept me writing," he says. "Everything that came after that in my teenage years was a bit indulgent. What was really great at that time were melodies, and I still go back and harvest melodies from then. Uni was a really great time because I was doing something I hated doing - I didn't hate law but it was not exciting - so I was writing, writing, writing and I made a commitment at some stage at uni that I had to do the music stuff, it had to work." London may have been calling, but Salvat still calls Australia home. "I love writing in Australia, more I think than anywhere else because of the landscape. The sky is is higher here, it's more open, everything is more open."In the often risk- averse world of pop, Salvat has won praise for his sharp and often dark wordplay. "I always thought I was pretty bad at lyrics until I put my music out and people were like, 'The lyrics!'" he says. "I think it's because I never really thought about them, they didn't make sense until they were finished." Salvat says short stories have always got his creative juices flowing more freely than poetry or novels. "I did read a lot, and then I got an iPhone and I stopped reading, basically," he laughs. "And then I got Netflix and really stopped reading. But reading is essential to good lyric writing, I think."