Felix Saunders - King of Nothing

Felix Saunders is a singer songwriter that hails from the Western Isles. He plays the kind of music that is usually heard in smoky back rooms as the sun comes up. Where people spill their most vulnerable secrets and try to wash them away with each drink they take.

Felix's debut solo single This Old Town gained national radio play including BBC Rapal and received over 80,000 streams on Spotify.

King of Nothing will be the first single taken from his debut EP I Guess This Is Progress and it was released on Friday 5 February.

When asked about the track Felix said:

This song is based around my lowest moment of 2020, I wrote this in the mist of losing my flat, job and girlfriend all right next each other while having a nervous breakdown, I don’t advise it.

The King of Nothing is an atmospheric track with its sweeping guitar painting a picture of fading light or dark bothy bars. It’s a song that delivers a beautiful soundscape played alongside a dark and brooding vocal, it’s contrast that makes it eminently enjoyable.

Given Felix’s self description of the track you know that the lyrics are going to be melancholic and this is captured in the self deprecating words when he sings “days are starting to fall apart like this decaying home, I made friends with my loneliness just to have someone by my side, you may think me a jester, you may think me a clown but I'm the king, the king of nothing”.

I have to admit that this was the first time I had heard Felix, but King of Nothing had me scrambling through Spotify for more and I can’t wait until the EP lands to hear more from this wonderful songsmith.

Give King Of Nothing a stream below:

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