Canberra’s Harry Carman defies genre with his new single “Prisoner.” The press release claims it’s “a melodic, up-tempo 3-minute pop song” but that description doesn’t go far enough. The brass hooks and bass have a real jazzy flavour, and those wailing guitars are pure rock. It takes the listener on a real journey, engaging from start to finish.
“When I wrote ‘Prisoner’ I was broke, sleeping on a friend’s couch and living a self-destructive lifestyle. My first EP was out, and I wanted the rock star lifestyle – sex, drugs and rock & roll – the problem was that I wasn’t a rock star, in fact far from it,” Harry explained. “’Prisoner’ is a song about breaking up with that way of life and focusing on the music, I wrote the song from the perspective of an abusive relationship, because that’s what it was, an abusive relationship between myself and the person I wanted to be.”
“Prisoner” comes from Harry’s upcoming EP State of Sedation, which should drop in the middle of the year.