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1. Shape of You - in 2016 I’d finished Divide & wanted to write big pop songs for other artists with Steve Mac & Johnny McDaid. The first thing Steve played was the SOY riff & we started the song with Little Mix in mind, then we decided to pitch it to Rihanna. My label convinced me to keep it & by golly I’m glad they did
2. 2step - this came very late in the Equals album process, I wanted one more upbeat song for the album as it had a lot of slow songs & this is what came. Was so fun finding so many artists to make remixes of it, one of my fav things I did in 2022
3. You Need Me I Don’t Need You - I wrote this when I was 15, its my oldest song that I still play live. It was a fan fav but was hard to replicate the energy on a recording, which is why it almost didn’t make Plus, but we got there
4. I’m a Mess - I thought I’d finished it too late for the album. I was doing up my house and had a new shower room put in. The acoustics were amazing, I started writing songs in there coz I love the way my voice sounded (who doesn’t love singing in a shower). This is one of my fav songs ive ever made
5. Thinking Out Loud - Amy Wadge came to visit in 2014 to hear Multiply & hang out. There’s never a time we hang where we don’t write something and ToL came out of a jam after dinner. It felt like it was too late to make the album but recorded it anyway. It made the final tracklist & took us all by surprise when it came out
6. The Hills Of Aberfeldy - Me & Foy Vance wrote this in 2012 whilst on tour in Aberfeldy, Scotland. Subtract was meant to be the album after Plus, and ‘Feldy was meant to be the last track. Plans changed & Multiply came next, but I always wanted it to end Subtract once it was finally released |