OLLIE HUSSEY Shares Inventive Single ‘May I Use?’
Distinctively gritty vocals emerge from a dynamic backdrop of delicate piano hooks and sleek guitar riffs in this ambitiously original track.
Raised in Lancashire, England but now residing in Cardiff, Wales, Ollie Hussey studies music at university and creates what he describes as “dream-pop blended with folk and electro influences.” Despite it beginning during the pandemic, Ollie has earned an impeccable start to his solo career, due to consistent acclamation from tastemakers BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio.
Created using merely a guitar, the percussive elements of scissors and pens, and an old iPhone, this song is the product of an artist’s impressive creative feat to use everyday items to create sonics.
Ollie shares:
It all started with the main piano hook that runs pretty much all the way through, then it all came together after that. I’ll be honest, it’s not really about anything specific! The way I write a lot of the time is I get most of the instrumental done and then I make random noises into my phone until words start forming. They don’t have to mean anything, if they sound good and they rhyme then I’ll put them in! What happens then is that I can then listen back to it and it’s like I’m hearing it for the first time and I can interpret the lyrics however I want. To me, I imagine it being about somebody who wants to be somebody else; they literally want to assume their identity. I think they’ve taken their admiration for them too far and it’s become obsessive. There’s a line in it that says: May I rule over you? so there’s definitely a creepy aspect to it.
Born out of the pandemic, May I Use? is a shining example of artists’ incredible ability to create unique and authentic art to share with the world, even when inspiration and positivity may be lacking in said world.