Comprising "off-cuts" at the time the album "Blossom Outside" was written, "The Acoustic EP" collection of folk songs in the "singer-songwriter" tradition:

1. "Live (To Fight) Another Day" is guitar arpeggio-driven plea not to give-up, but rather "keep-on-keeping-on". A song of encouragement. Written for my daughter who at the time was going through

Comprising "off-cuts" at the time the album "Blossom Outside" was written, "The Acoustic EP" collection of folk songs in the "singer-songwriter" tradition:

1. "Live (To Fight) Another Day" is guitar arpeggio-driven plea not to give-up, but rather "keep-on-keeping-on". A song of encouragement. Written for my daughter who at the time was going through some personal turmoil.

2. "Illiberal Neoliberal" is an acoustic guitar and violin driven folk-song on the theme of ecology, inspired by reading Kate Raworth's book "Doughnut Economics"

3."Sins of the Father" is a mostly a-capella rumination of the cruelty of holding people in this life to ransom and thrall for the promise of something better (and eternal) in the hereafter.

1. "Borscht" is an acoustic guitar and violin driven hymn for the people of Ukraine and condemnation of Putin's illegal and appalling war waged upon them. Taking for its metaphor the national dish of beetroot soup, it is a prayer for peace; for the days it can be eaten by a whole world at peace.