Australian pop-outfit Sheppard have returned with the follow up to February’s inaugural release ‘Don’t Believe In Love’ with their second release from their yearlong project, and forthcoming album, titled ‘Somebody Like you’. George Sheppard opens up about heartbreak and breaking the seemingly endless cycle of ‘comfort dating’ on the track.
While February’s post-valentine’s Day release acted as the band’s very own ‘anti-love’ song, speaking on the common relationship theme of ‘doubt’, the follow up track ‘Somebody Like You’ see’s Sheppard peel even more layers back, revealing are far more personal and intimate relationship struggle; one that is only too common for all of us.
“Somebody Like You” is actually the first song we wrote for this year long project. It was written last year in Brisbane, about a time in my early 20’s when I lost the girl I thought was the love of my life. I’ve never been that heartbroken. She was the best thing that had ever happened to me at the time, and over the course of the next year I realised I wasn’t actually moving on and trying to look for someone new, I was looking for someone who was exactly like her.” Said George Sheppard
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different outcome. But, we all love what’s comfortable to us, even if we know deep down that it’s not what’s actually best for us. continued George Sheppard. We look for the same person in a different city, town or country hoping for a different story. For too long I was convincing myself that ‘this time it would be different’ but it never was. It’s a cycle that’s really easy to slip into and something we’re all guilty of at some point. This new single is about that feeling and that period of my life, which I’m happy to be done with”
Released month by month, and accompanied by music videos, art and content splashed across the bands social channels, the linear narrative embedded within Sheppard’s forthcoming 2020 release will slowly begin to take shape over the coming months.