Western Sydney’s Cap Carter is bouncing back from hard times with a vengeance. In just 12 months his band broke up, he lost a friend, and he battled mental health problems. It could have broken him, but he used his struggles to fuel some powerful music. The result is “Thrill,” a powerful track recorded in the United Kingdom with Macklemore’s producer iSaintJames. Cap met the influential producer via Instagram and they bonded immediately over their mental health battles, grief, and passion for music. The song deals with many of these hard-hitting issues, but it’s also tinged with an optimism that things will get better.
“I was by myself for a long time that year. Locked myself up internally and tried to figure out what the hell was going on with life,” Cap explained. “I was angry, frustrated and tired about getting nowhere as a musician and as a person. So I did what anyone else would do, I wrote. Lost count of the bottles and I screamed every word ‘til I felt like my soul was healing. That is what my music is – a soul cleanse. A plea for some sort of tourniquet to stop the bleeding.”
“Thrill” is such an emotional song, and one that hints Cap Carter may be our next big thing. I can’t wait to hear more from this exciting local musician.
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