hARVEY cAUSON

Artist / Composer / Producer / Remixer

https://www.harveycauson.co.uk

North London composer, musician and vocalist Harvey Causon delivers his stunning debut album Square Breath – with digital and vinyl released on November 15th 2024.

Harvey Causon’s restless curiosity has long been the force behind his deft and infectious sound. Since he was a child, music has been a way for him to explore and untangle the world around him, a raw form of communication to distil complex theories into mesmerising tracks.

Breaking through Bristol's ever-experimental music scene with his first releases in 2017, Causon has built a reputation as an artist with a truly singular voice and songwriting ability. The singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist's slew of EPs – including ‘Vertebrae’ and ‘Fourth Wall’ - have been championed by BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, NME, DIY, Clash, Metal and Notion. They build electronic landscapes with an almost-scientific lyric-craft that vibrate with a deep emotional resonance.

Harvey is a current member of Sampha’s legendary band on tour in UK, Europe, Asia and US, supporting him on selected dates. Harvey has opened for the likes of Hot Chip, Maribou State and Loyle Carner. Harvey is a memorable performer with a beautifully tender live vocal. Harvey will go on the road again in February 2025, headlining The ICA in London and Bristol’s Rough Trade.

Square Breath has gained support from the likes of WONDERLAND, METAL and DANCEWAX and extensive BBC Radio plays from the likes of Sian Eleri, Alyx Smallcome and James Threlfall.

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Debut album Square Breath

Released 15th November 2024

A grippingly unique voice connecting universal ideologies and ambitions, Harvey Causon’s progressive and politically-charged music marks him as an immediate standout.

Expressing his own experiences of hope and frustration, influences past and present, reflections on the future, and the cultural knowledge gained from his environment, Square Breath was formed to tell a larger story; his raw, intricate lyricism and dystopian soundwaves dominate the album’s arc, detailing crucial subject matter that blossoms into an enigmatic display of authority and vulnerability. From love and heartbreak to the worsening climate crisis, competition through capitalism and the spiral of artificial intelligence, Causon’s highly fertile and visionary mind stands as a true testament to his powers of documentation.

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Single ‘Impasse’

Speaking on “Impasse”, Causon mentions: “This track was written with artist SALPA (Luke Bower) in one take in a hotel room 5 years ago about an ‘impasse’ of a long-distance relationship. A dreamlike memory mourning the fleeting moments we have with each other. Choreographer Magnus Westwell directed the music video and also plays strings on the track alongside Harvey Grant on the saxophone both toying with space and chaos.”

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Harvey Causon

Single ‘Nostalgia’

Opening with beautifully crafted violins and a striking AI sample formed from vintage 70s records, the hazy, nocturnal production on “Nostalgia” quickly blossoms into an electric wall of sound; rolling drum breaks and heavy-weight basslines creating a canvas for Harvey Causon’s ethereal exploration of reality and the dystopia that can rework and affect our creative journeys. Shaping raw, intricate lyrics alongside GRAMMY-winners P*nut (Amy Winehouse, Faithless) and Erik Alcock (Nas, Eminem, Celine Dion), the young talent chants: “Nostalgia got me sinking // Getting harder to distinguish” - a complex limbo that becomes illuminated through the visual’s powerful, warped darkness.

Speaking on “Nostalgia”, Harvey Causon states: “When writing the initial lyrics, I was unaware that the sample was AI-generated. The lyrics that came to me were based on ideas of recalling memories and not being able to distinguish whether they are from reality or formed from photographs we’ve seen. With modern forms of hyperrealism in AI photo and music generation I found myself thinking about how much memory is based around reality and what this means for nostalgia in the future. ‘Nostalgia’ also reflects on the regurgitative nature of AI and the loss of interest in the nuances of human creativity.”

He adds: “The music video created with Node TV also uses generative imagery and reflects on the symptomatic fear that has been attached to the subject of technological singularity - a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilisation. Director Katie Scott aimed to convey the ‘nuance’ of the human experience and how that translates into the digital realm.”

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Harvey Causon

Single ‘Fault Lines’

‘Fault Lines’ was written in Deptford last summer with Rosie Lowe and Harvey Grant (Dweller).

‘It’s about the stage before you allow yourself to fall in love with someone. It’s about the feeling of exploring a new city on a hot summer night with someone that you are also navigating. The air tastes different and everything smells sweeter, everything feels possible. The backstreets, the abstract bokeh of lights akin to the initial dots of a blooming relationship. The mundane seems more enchanting than usual. Ultimately it’s about letting go and the feeling of wanting someone. The full live brass section and strings underneath saxophones, synths and samples of piano pedals moving give it a broodiness and a lightness at the same time.’

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Harvey Causon

Single ‘Psycho’

The punching, bass-driven ‘Psycho’ is Harvey’s first new single since his 2022 EP. a comment on how political and institutional systems within society uphold and encourage competition. How ego driven leaders distort reality and pit people against each other for financial gain, killing true art.

The video Harvey created in collaboration with director and choreographer Folu Odimayo is based around a feeling of being forced to act like dogs in the UK’s creative industries, jumping through hoops and selling souls just to stay afloat. Folu articulates this animalistic and doglike physicality with the movement. Inspired by Francis Bacon paintings; surreal dream-like vignettes, deranged humour and visceral rave-like dancing communicate resistance and feelings of exorcism.

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