Ed Cosens: 'Fortunes Favour' In His Own Words
Best known as the guitarist and co-songwriter of Reverend & The Makers, Ed Cosens has stepped forward from the shadows with the release of his debut solo album, ‘Fortunes Favour’. Pouring two decades worth of songwriting experience into his first solo venture, Cosens is blossoming within his own right; combining reflective lyricism with shimmering textures, ‘Fortunes Favour’ is a serious testament to Cosens’ talent for songwriting. Aided in the studio by Milburn’s Joe Carnall, and The Crookes’ Adam Crofts, Cosens also co-produced the record with Dave Sanderson. Giving us further insight into the record is the man himself…
Running on Empty
Steady Eddy, that’s what you’re known as. Never flustered, never stressed. Steady Eddy. You’re good at portraying this image too, it makes life easier I guess. Diffusing tricky situations and potential conflict and always being the one with the answers or to pick up the slack. Except it’s never quite that simple is it. Quietly you’re screaming inside for help, you’re not always ok but it just wouldn’t do to be seen as the one who panics or loses their shit would it…
If
Somehow, you always manage to sabotage your own happiness. Perhaps it’s human nature, perhaps it’s just karma, but in the end, you realise that you’re just not better off and the grass definitely isn’t greener. Why do you allow your heart to break when you’re inflicting the damage yourself? However, when true love is involved, there is always hope and always a way back if you realise and admit you were wrong.
The River
If this is the answer, do I want to know the question you’re asking? Sometimes it’s hard to see a situation for what it is when your mind and vision are clouded by love and the hurt love can cause. Sometimes you simply need to allow your actions to speak louder than words and that if you wait long enough, you’ll find the right answer to the right question and you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Last To Know
It’s not you, love, it’s me. Everyone can see it except you. The dictionary definition of love is blind, although not in the ‘nice’ way. Blind to the fool she’s taken you for and as ever, the person who most deserves respect gets the least. Take heart at least in the notion that things always happen for a reason and staying true to yourself is your best form of defence.
Fortunes Favour
Fate is an often belittled concept and dismissed as nonsense by those who seek to try and circumnavigate its sphere of influence. Fortune, the most fickle element of fate can levy its power on both the deserving and the most undeserving. It’s easy to focus on and be dismayed by those times fortune shines a light on people who have done nothing to be bestowed its often rich reward. But fortune has a habit of acting in ways you may not always be aware of and that if you keep being yourself and doing what you feel right, you will find the favour you desire.
Madeleine
Deep down, you know you’re going to get hurt but desire can be a powerful drug and when mixed with the someone who knows they’re in control it can be potent. The more you come back to taste this heady combination, the more you find yourself pulled under their spell, and perhaps, the more you don’t care…
Lovers Blues
Of course, you can always give out the best advice and appear the wise old sage but when you get struck by Cupid’s arrow it’s as though your head empties of any rational thought process and when left to its own devices, the heart seldom allows you an easy fix. Try as you might to convince yourself you don’t care, you know you do, and it’s never easy to heed your own advice.
On The Run
Sometimes, relationships that aren’t romantic can be the most difficult. Despite years of loyal service and presumed camaraderie you find yourself on the wrong side of the battle lines, hung out to dry and sold down the river. The only thing left to do is pick yourself up, dust off your rifle and go hunting…
The Pantomime
This book’s a classic. Protagonist and best mate taking on the world together. Adventures full of promise and joie de vivre. Growing up together and sharing those experiences that stay with you forever. Then BAM… Best mate turns out to be the villain, swayed by forces of evil, courted and taken in by the dark side leaving the plucky protagonist to go it alone. Well, we all know how this one ends. Like I said, classic.
Come On In
It’s 3am. Walking up that hill listening to Soulwax full blast in the cool midsummer night air, it’s like a rush. You stop at the gate and pause for a moment, looking out over the twinkling lights of the city winding down as your thoughts turn to her. Though you may be leaving, tonight you must show her how you feel. Your heart begins to thump in anticipation...
Ed Cosen’s debut album, ‘Fortunes Favour’ is out now. Take a listen to it below!
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