The debut solo album by a Macclesfield musician has released to critical acclaim.

Watch Me Break Apart, which covers anxieties over social media and the climate crisis, is 33 minutes long, and we've linked listening links below.

In the run up to the release, the Macclesfield music artist has received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6 Music and Radio X.

And the Macc songwriter, producer and mixer has received plaudits for his first full-length project since the disbandment of his band Spring King, for whom he was the drummer.

Watch Me Break Apart has been rated 4/5 by both DORK and Narc magazines, with more glowing reviews set to follow.

Also known by his real name as Tarek Musa, the musician is a former student of Macclesfield's Fallibroome Academy. Tarek now lives in Liverpool.

He had this to say ahead of today's release of Watch Me Break Apart.

"My album is out on Friday. This feels so surreal, exciting and nerve wracking," they said.

"It's been a crazy year, and this debut album has been a long time in the making. The first of many, many new batches of music I want to put out as Dead Nature and musically it's the perfect introduction to where my mind was at the time of making it, but also where I'm headed.

"I can't deny I'm fortunate to be endlessly inspired by so many artists and bands that I've produced; and channelling that into my own project has been great fuel for the fire.

"This record touches on the stories of my life, and the lives of friends. My observations of the world from my eyes and from those who have a worldview that is totally opposite to mine. An amalgamation of my own emotions and those of others that I've discovered as I endlessly scroll the online wormhole in the early hours."

While the album was finished during the pandemic, some of the songs dates back to 2019.

Throughout Watch Me Break Apart, internal anxieties are made external, and re-purposed into a carnival of multi-coloured, fuzzed-up indie-pop.

The strain of social media and a whirlwind news-cycle mix on the album's cartwheeling title track, pairing thoughts of sleepless nights with isolated imagery.

Lyrics penned by the Macclesfield musician on the opening track include 'A car waits at the lights, no one's in the driver's seat / In the ocean stands a tree'.

Crunchy guitar synth twinged track 50 Foot Wall, and the paradoxically light-hearted anthem Hurricane were both written against the backdrop of a growing climate crisis.

Meanwhile another standout number Ladlands, zeroes in on social and political struggle, the rate at which change is happening, and the reality-warping nature of the echo-chamber.

You can listen to the full album here, or click on individual tracks below:

1. Watch Me Break Apart
2. Hurricane
3. 50 Foot Wall
4. Borrowed Heart
5. Falling Down
6. Red Clouds
7. Rivers
8. Nothing Is Gonna Change
9. Ladlands

You can also buy a physical copy of the album here.

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