I've also noticed there's a type of songwriting that stems from the need to chill out and sit in calm reflection. This produces really good "mood music".

There's another type that results from something hot and personal, like anger or grief, that's eating at you so badly the songwriting is more like a desperate sort of exorcism.

For a long time all I could seem to write was stuff in the second category; the ability to write in a gentler style is a much more recent development.

Slán,

~Fionn

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