Grey Streak - Soft Courage (2025)

Soft Courage is the second full length of emerging producer and artist
Grey Streak, a kaleidoscopic collection reflecting on digital living, both as trigger and treatment of sensory overload. An emerging figure of the Liverpool music community, having founded SINK as a label and music series, collaborations on Soft Courage with Ben Vince, TONE, CJ Calderwood, Mori Mori and Harriet Morley have come by Grey Streak’s enthusiastic building of connections across the UK electronic scene.

Building from the foundations of his debut album LIMBO, an album written and recorded on the road as a session musician, Soft Courage sources and samples from classical music and ASMR videos, repurposing microloops into songs that equally draw from synthpop, techno and glitch. While the arrangements are dense and frenetic, Westwood’s vocals effortlessly create their own niche of tender, understated melody that gains emotional weight over the course of the album.

“I wanted the album to feel as raw and uncompromising as the internet and what the endless scroll culture can have on the mind. As a terminally anxious person I wanted to show the fear and confusion the constant stream of information can have.”

Soft Courage takes inspiration from calming methods in his work in SEND education, where young people would watch ASMR videos to treat themselves from overstimulation. As a direct reflection, songs suddenly jolt across sonic environments; cinematic soundscapes crash into brittle percussion in It’s Never Easy, while the plaintive organ chords in I Know It Takes Forever provide structure in opposition to its clubby breakdown.

Capping off an impressive first year, with two albums and the single
‘Levels’ with Elijah Right? and Brother May, Grey Streak is quietly building a reputation for distilling everyday inspirations into uniquely intimate productions.