Track By Track: Lucy Mason on her Going Home Broke EP

Hunger

This song came last in the process of this EP and it was written about wanting and needing something so badly but coming to the realisation of how bad that was for me. It sums up the whole message of the record for me. It was produced by Ed Tullett.

Going Home Broke

This song is the inspiration for the honesty behind this record. Living in London and being a writer has involved feeling broke 99% of the time but being ‘broke’ financially isn’t just what I meant when I wrote this. I felt physically broken from illness and stress and emotionally broken from disappointment. I was kinda over it all and this song went from being that sad story to becoming more of a motivation for me. I started to realise that being ‘broke’ maybe ain’t so bad. It was produced by Jess Ellen.

Feels Like Midnight

This song was written after recovering from some health issues. I was in and out of health for a long time and got to a point where I thought it would be like this forever. The worst of these feelings were usually at midnight when I was tired and unable to sleep for whatever reason. Produced by Jess Ellen and amazing piano skills from Jamin Bennett who recorded it back in Australia.

Latest Love

Somehow ended up on this guys ‘girls I used to date’ list but it’s complicated and we didn’t date.

I just had some sass I wanted to lay down and it’s basically about being on a very long, embarrassing list of women. Nothing overly important but just a bit of fun. Produced by Andy Mak, one of my most favourite people.

Teenage Fire

Making this record just became about honesty for me and finally being able to write some songs I was worried about writing or maybe couldn’t finish, and this is another one of those songs. I lost a friend when I was really young and all these years later I was finally able to look back on it and see how it changed me. This song is not about what happened, it’s about how I look back on being a teenager. This song has taken me longer to finish than any other. Produced by Nik Karlin.