Music by Jeremy’s Scenes from a Well Worn Path is now two sides into a much bigger story. Side One arrived on August 25th, introducing six songs from a 24 track project being released across four monthly installments. Side Two is out now, bringing the next six-song chapter into the world.
Where We Left Off
Jeremy is a Banbury, Oxfordshire songwriter working from a small home studio. The songs begin with his own music and lyrics, often written on an old Faith acoustic guitar, before he builds them into fuller productions.
Side One gave us six songs that moved around stylistically without losing the personality of the songwriter behind them. Be Me opened with the pressure of trying to become what other people expect. The Story of a Mistress moved into character driven storytelling, while Bowie on the Wall drew from one of Jeremy’s musical heroes without turning into an imitation.
How to Be Good continued the questioning, A Well Worn Path brought the biggest production on the side, and Bittersweet closed the first chapter. Across those six songs, Jeremy moved through folk, soul, post punk, synth pop, blues and gospel territory while keeping the writing at the centre.
Side Two, Track by Track
Side Two continues the wider journey Jeremy describes as one that moves through pain, grief, joy and fear, guided by what he calls joyous realism: life can be difficult and sometimes absurd, but there’s still plenty of beauty, humour and curiosity in it. Across these six songs, an acoustic guitar again becomes the connecting thread, with atmospheric production, rhythmic shifts and layered harmonies gradually building out the world around it.
Do Birds Sing the News opens the side with real intimacy, built around acoustic guitar and giving Jeremy’s emotionally expressive vocal plenty of room to breathe. The delivery feels conversational, almost like the song is thinking out loud rather than arriving at a neat conclusion. So Cold takes that acoustic foundation somewhere more atmospheric, surrounding textures adding suspense and a slightly dramatic edge, though a sense of hope and forward momentum keeps the darkness from fully taking over.
Moving On – Side Two is more upbeat and melodic, warm vocal harmonies giving it real lift, though the lyrics complicate any straightforward read on moving forward, capturing the contradiction of recognizing you can’t stay somewhere without necessarily feeling ready to leave. 4 O’clock Train gives that idea a more physical sense of departure, handclaps setting the rhythm before guitar, pads and vocals build into a more mysterious, rhythmically driven atmosphere, like a journey whose destination stays deliberately unclear.
No 9 shifts again into a classic-rock character with a stronger melodic presence, moving between uplifting brightness and something darker and dreamier before returning to the light, almost mirroring the record’s larger idea that optimism and uncertainty don’t have to cancel each other out. Closer Idonella Sakaiensis returns to a laid-back warmth and acoustic simplicity, a grounding finish after the side’s more atmospheric detours, ending not with grand resolution but with the record’s most familiar element.
The Way Jeremy Makes It
One of the more unusual parts of this project is the production process. Jeremy writes all of the music and lyrics himself and produces the work from his Banbury studio. He has also been open about using AI tools as a creative prosthetic, helping him build out vocals and drums for a band he could not otherwise assemble.
The distinction matters. The songwriting starts with Jeremy. The technology is part of how he realizes the finished production, not where the songs originate. It’s an unconventional route, but it has allowed him to turn a collection of personal songs into a much larger body of work.
His musical influences help explain the emphasis on storytelling. John Lennon, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are among the artists Jeremy cites as important influences. They are all writers who understand that a song can do more than describe a feeling; it can sit with that feeling and ask questions about it.
A Project Still Unfolding
That’s what makes the release schedule interesting. Side One didn’t give us the whole picture, and Side Two doesn’t either. Each installment adds another group of songs to a project built around the idea that life doesn’t arrive as one clean narrative. Side Three is planned for October 25th, with Side Four following November 25th.
There are stories about relationships, identity, grief, joy, fear and all the strange territory in between. Jeremy’s approach is personal without being especially precious about it. There is room for humour alongside the heavier material, which keeps the project from becoming one long exercise in looking backward.
Side Two gives us another six scenes to add to the picture, and it does so by refusing to sit still, moving through intimacy, tension, contradiction, mystery and warmth without ever pretending any of those feelings can be cleanly resolved or left behind.
Final Thoughts
Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side Two continues a project that is ambitious in both its size and its willingness to move between different sides of Jeremy’s songwriting, and it finds its meaning in that movement itself, the uneasy, sometimes hopeful act of leaving one place emotionally while carrying pieces of it toward somewhere else.
Side One gave us a strong introduction, and Side Two builds on it with real confidence. Two more installments are still to come in October and November. That’s a lot of music, but Jeremy’s approach makes the journey worth following one side at a time.
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