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It's 4am​.​.​.

by Calum Baird

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It’s 4am… features soulful vocals and honest, reflective lyrics which contemplate and discuss social issues such as anxiety (existential and general), burnout and alienation as well as our collective attitudes towards such matters. In addition, the track expresses a deep concern for our current direction of travel – war, rising far-right politics, austerity and endless cycles of crises.

The song is grounded by a colourful, big and resonating piano arrangement which is accompanied by various instruments as the song builds to a crescendo for the final chorus. These include an acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, drums, mellotron, strings and glockenspiel. Its 4am… employs a vintage sound to interrogate contemporary issues and invokes the sounds of The 1960s, including slight nods to The Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever.

Its 4am… has a ballad-like feel, yet, handles its themes with a candid approach akin to contemporary folk and singer-songwriter styles. It is a song which emerges as a by-product of today’s prevailing conditions and it communicates the frustrations of an artist exhausted by negativity and hostility filling the air, making up news items and setting the agenda by which we all live.

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released April 21, 2023
Calum Baird (2023)
Tobias Thiele (2023)

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Calum Baird Falkirk, UK

"Echoing early Billy Bragg with his dogged optimism" - Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

“A rising Scottish folk star” – Jim Gellatly, Amazing Radio.

Calum Baird is an emerging Scottish indie-folk singer-songwriter and is tipped for 2024 by Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6 Music). His songs explore social commentary, modern life, relationships, alienation and social change.
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