The feeling of shedding an outer layer of emotional armour and being completely honest with ourselves when we finally slow down. The rawness of closely cradling all the pieces of a life and trying to make sense of them all. The incessant reflection when the shield of noise is lowered. A “true self” in a futile battle with many, many former selves for some reason.

In some form or another, I think this is a process that we’ve all touched on in the last two years. I know I have, big time.

At the outset of 2020, I was writing new music. I was fresh off a European tour and a month-long Canadian tour with Matt Mays at the end of 2019. I was playing the rock music I’d always wanted to make on the stages I’d always dreamed of playing it. I was confident.

I felt big things ahead. I was writing songs about being unapologetic, about taking up space in a genre in which I hadn’t always felt welcome. I was writing about joy, about rebellion, about self-assuredness, about feeling larger than life on a stage. But then came a stretch of time where stages were no longer available. Suddenly there was quiet.

Throughout 2020 and early 2021, I continued to write. Those songs of joy and confidence were now accompanied by songs of introspection, songs about myself and all my pieces, songs that tore me apart a little bit to write.

"Truth Be Told" is about all the versions of yourself you try on, all the mistakes you make, all the imperfections of finding yourself, and how impatient and downright mean you can be towards yourself along the way. For me, the song has come to represent how I grew into myself after moving around a lot my whole life, not being “from” anywhere, not always feeling a sense of belonging, and the long, long journey it took to love who I am and to be softer with myself. I wrote it with my friend Charlie Kerr of the band Hotel Mira, who is a longtime collaborator and songwriting inspiration to me.

More than anything, "Truth Be Told" is a celebration of all the uncertain, awkward, sometimes ugly parts of growth and being human.

So this is "Truth Be Told," the first song of mine coming out this year and I am beyond excited to share it. I hope you get a moment to rock out and maybe even shed that outer layer of emotional armour.

Thank you,
Skye