WESTON DAY
Weston knows a thing or two about tunes. He grew up playing guitar in the family home surrounded by folk, blues, country and radio pop. This strange mix maybe explains the crossover blend of acoustic based folk and eighties pop infusion. Sprinkle in a touch of myth and mystic juxtaposed with real world experience and you are starting to get close. These are tales of people, cinematic skies and natures god-like power woven with tunes like fishhooks - they get under the skin and dig right in. Held together with raw vocals and an eight string baritone guitar this music has a campfire punk rock spirit at heart.
Drawing influence from the unpolished reality of Johnny Flynn and the soulful intensity of Hozier, alongside the lyrical precision of Elvis Costello, Weston Day goes in search of something honest - he is an appreciator of the practiced - those that can deliver a message live without recourse to atmospherics. He is also an appreciator of fine songwriting - that studied blend of lyrical precision and a well constructed musical landscape. For those that haven’t seen him live before this music is acoustic at its core, yet with a sense of scale and grandeur and you may even find yourself singing along to something that feels quietly anthemic. Be careful in case those fishhooks get you.
This is British songwriting at its finest – literate, emotionally intelligent, musically assured, and
MAPS
MAPS is an album shaped by memory, landscape and the quiet turning points that define us.
Across its songs run themes of love and regret, past and present, family, childhood, exploration, wild nature and stillness. Beneath it all lies a creative thread — a call to keep pulling at what still stirs beneath the surface.
MAPS explores the vulnerability of creative adulthood: the moment when we realise youth is not invincibility, and growing older requires courage of a different kind. It is about facing ourselves honestly — admitting we are not necessarily wiser, just more practiced at disguise — and choosing to speak anyway.
emerged is a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive: reflective, yet quietly defiant.
MAPS stands as a document of becoming — a record of where we have been, what we have learned, and the questions that remain. As life unfolds, it is easy to feel unanchored, to wonder whether we have lost our way or our voice.
This album suggests otherwise.
Icarus
On Youtube
Watch the Icarus Video on YouTube to give you a taste of the MAPS album in full flight