Getting his start busking from the age of eight, Daniel Shaw is an artist committed to his craft. All that hard work is starting to pay off, as Daniel recently signed with Island Records Australia. His first release under the label is “drunk high low,” a relatable pop song that marries upbeat melodies with dark themes of overthinking and overdrinking.
“I battle with self-expression sometimes, I’m not good with uncomfortable situations and conflict, I run away from them. In this song I point out how my coping mechanism was to drink, I felt that anxiety and depression went away, and I could handle it, I was fine,” he admitted. “I wasn’t in a good place, I’d moved out fairly suddenly, but the reason the song is called ‘drunk high low’ is because it was just that cycle of getting drunk, feeling alright – which is the high – and then I went right back to feeling low and the cycle would start again.”
Daniel has spent the last year writing songs for his new EP, which will drop later this year.
Image used with permission from Island Records Australia