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Rosehip Teahouse are making the kind of music you wish you could muster: real, cathartic tunes that neutralise the band's - and in particular, frontperson Faye Rogers' - emotions.

Lyrically emotional and musically redolent with yearning, this sophomore effort - titled Fine - is a gorgeous portrait of the inside of a human mind. We asked Faye to take us through each of the EP's five tracks. See what they had to say below:

'I Meant What I Said'

I wrote this song a couple of years ago in a time where I was acting purely on emotion, getting overwhelmed and then running away. In this particular situation, I ran away to Copenhagen with my flatmate. The song came to me in the blue shower in our little blue Airbnb. I could have sworn the smell of the shampoo was the exact same as the one used by a person I had cared deeply for, and suddenly I was back sitting in the street next to them, crying and walking away, ultimately ending our relationship. I Meant What I Said is my little apology note, but I don’t know if they ever heard it. 

'No Gloom'

'No Gloom' is a song about the pain of unrequited love. I wrote this song after a very intense summer with someone who didn’t love me. I was so desperate to show them how I felt about them that I pushed them away instead. But still in my mind, the time spent with them was full of so much brightness. There’s an original demo of this from 2016 on our Bandcamp: just me sitting in my room hunched over a computer trying to figure out how to record music alone in a room that was way too hot. It was so nice to bring the song to the rest of the band and see it bloom. 

'I’m Not Whole' 

This song is about living life with an eating disorder. I developed anorexia when I was around 10 years old, and it’s been something that has followed me around ever since. Even when things begin to get better, and luckily for me they are, it feels like it’s always one step behind me, ready to grab me and take over again. Things don’t always feel that bleak, and I’m so grateful to have come so far in my recovery, but this song was a way for me to process the frustration that it never really leaves entirely. 

'A Million Times' 

'A Million Times' is a lot of my anxiety manifesting in a song. I was finding that I would try and mould myself into what I thought everyone else wanted from me, not realising that I was losing more and more of myself in the process. And even then, what I thought people wanted from me was usually wrong. So it was all a bit of a mess, hiding my feelings, feeling like I was ‘too much’ for anyone else in my life. It was hard to break out of the cycle, but I’m finding it easier to be myself now. 'A Million Times' is a little reminder to myself that I don’t need to be that way anymore.

'Summer Sleep'

I wrote 'Summer Sleep' in 2016. I was staying with someone who I loved very much, but knew that they didn’t feel the same about me. The last time I stayed at their house, I had this elaborate dream that their ex-girlfriend was in hospital and that we’d gone to visit her. In that moment, seeing her in the hospital bed, it was as if I no longer existed in their life. I had disappeared. Once they had left together, I wandered around a strange town that probably doesn’t exist either. I found myself lying on the ground of a small white building with a beautiful blue glass window, staring at the ceiling. When I woke up from the dream, I left my love in their bed and said goodbye. It was the last time I saw them for a very long time, and the dream is still as clear as any other real memory in my head.

Fine EP is out now.

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