Debut album Watch Me Break Apart out today

Producer and songwriter - and former Spring King singer - Tarek Musa has for a long time placed himself at the centre of other artists’ worlds, helping to hone sounds and build scenes through his production work for artists such as The Big Moon, Genghar, and Dream Nails, Calva Louise, Police Car Collective - as well as providing remixes for the likes of Circa Waves. As BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders noted recently on-air, "we owe a lot to him out here... he's putting the passion from [Spring King] into the future of the alternative music that we love." With Dead Nature, Musa allows himself to step back from his role as architect for others and set about pursuing his own creative impulses.

Over the course of four previous singles - “Red Clouds”, “Hurricane” "Falling Down" and "Rivers" - Musa’s targeted manifesto for an album of heavyweight pop songwriting, that is as honest and sentimental as is it is fizzing with energy, has been realised beautifully. Throughout Watch Me Break Apart, internal anxieties are made external, and re-purposed into a carnival of multi-coloured, fuzzed-up indie-pop. The strain of social media and a whirlwind news-cycle compound on the album’s cartwheeling title track, pairing thoughts of sleepless nights with isolated imagery (“A car waits at the lights, no one’s in the driver’s seat / In the ocean stands a tree”).

Musa comments on the accompanying video: "Working on this video has got to be one of the highlights of this record for me. The director duo Dreamjob really brought this song to life. Every time I watch the video something new hits me about it and what we were doing on that sweltering day."

Director duo Dreamjob talk of the video as: "a fraternal journey through the shell, deep into the flesh of the nut. Cracked thumbnails, sweat stung eyes and lungs heavy with frankincense; a film built to carry Musa, Nestoridis and Miroslavov [the characters in the video] to the crest of sanity."