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On 20. March 2020 RHODES RETURNS WITH BRAND NEW SINGLE ‘THIS SHOULDN’T WORK’ from Rhodes' upcoming EP "I’m Not Okay" comes 4 years on from his debut album "Wishes", which saw the Hertfordshire, UK-born singer tour the world with the likes of Sam Smith, Hozier and George Ezra, win a fan in Taylor Swift, and soundtrack a Burberry show backed by a twenty-piece orchestra.

In the intervening years Rhodes battled both the music industry and his own self-doubt, an intense but rewarding process captured in all its raw, jarring beauty on this expressive collection of new songs.

“I’ve been through some of the most wonderful, life-changing experiences with people I could never have dreamed of being so close to,” he says. “I’ve run away to some of the world’s most beautiful and secret corners searching for whatever it is I’m looking for. And I’ve managed to find a place that, for now at least, I’m feeling good about. I’ve written songs about those moments of realization, about hope, about love, about hurt and those flashes of clarity when you’re growing into your skin. These days it feels like I’m waking up and reaching out for something with open eyes and open arms.”

If you listen closely you’ll hear a man falling apart then putting himself back together. Passionately personal and reassuringly universal, these new songs switch the abstract, poetic lyricism of Rhodes’ earlier work with a new-found honesty and directness.