Hello everyone, it’s your host Tehillah from DULAXI, and today I’m delighted to be joined by Jeremy, the creative force behind Music by Jeremy, an independent singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Banbury, England. Working across rock, acoustic rock, indie pop, melodic pop rock and singer-songwriter territory, Jeremy is making his debut with Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One, released on 25th August 2026.
Before we begin our conversation with Jeremy, here’s what you need to know about today’s featured project.
About Music by Jeremy
Music by Jeremy arrives with a debut that immediately challenges the idea of what a first album is expected to be. Based in Banbury, England, Jeremy has spent a lifetime listening to music, writing songs and absorbing the work of some of the most distinctive storytellers and confessional songwriters of their generations. John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Randy Newman and David Bowie have all played significant roles in shaping his musical perspective, particularly in their ability to turn complicated human experiences into direct, memorable songwriting.
Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One is the first instalment of a much larger project. The complete Scenes from a Well Worn Path is a 24-track double album that will unfold across four sides between August and November 2026, with each side given its own character and single. Side One introduces listeners to an artist whose writing moves comfortably between personal reflection, social observation, humour, political engagement and intellectual curiosity.
The music itself refuses to remain within one narrow genre. Acoustic folk, soul, post-punk, synth-pop, blues, gospel and comedy rock all have a place within the wider project, while the songwriting provides the thread connecting these different musical worlds. Jeremy’s approach is rooted in what he calls “joyous realism”, an outlook that confronts grief, dependency, moral failure, uncertainty and disappointment without surrendering the beauty, humour, love and wonder that can exist alongside them.
Side One’s lead single, “Be Me”, provides an especially direct introduction to this perspective. Built around the exhaustion of constantly performing a version of yourself for the comfort of others, the song reflects one of the project’s recurring concerns: the difficult process of becoming honest about who you are and what you actually want from life.
The title itself points toward the album’s broader concept. Rather than presenting a conventional chronological autobiography, Scenes from a Well Worn Path gathers moments, observations and remembered emotions from a life that Jeremy describes as very fulfilled. The songs move through subjects that can initially appear unrelated, from grief and relationships to Keynesian economics, Schrödinger, ecological questions, plastic-eating bacteria and the Romans straightening rivers. Yet beneath the variety is a songwriter who sees connections between literature, science, art, politics and everyday human experience.
The record was also created under unusual circumstances. Working independently from a home studio, Jeremy wrote, arranged and produced the material using Ableton Live. He performs the guitars and bass himself, including the fretless bass that occupies an important expressive role within the music. Without a conventional band available to complete the recordings, he turned to generative AI tools trained on his own voice for vocals and drums. Rather than treating the technology as a replacement for his creative involvement, he used it as a practical extension of what he could accomplish alone.
At its centre, however, this remains a project about songwriting. Jeremy’s music is curious without losing its emotional grounding, intelligent without becoming detached, and willing to examine difficult subjects without turning them into exercises in despair. Side One establishes the beginning of a journey that is personal in origin but broad enough to invite listeners to recognise parts of their own lives within it.
Having this brief introduction to today’s featured project, I’m sure both new listeners and longtime fans are excited to hear directly from Jeremy. So, without further ado, let’s begin today’s interview.
INTERVIEW SESSION
Tehillah:
You are making your debut as a solo artist after a lifetime of listening to and writing music, and this project feels less like a beginning than the moment you have finally decided to speak openly. What experiences or circumstances brought you to this particular point in your life where these songs felt ready to be heard?
Music by Jeremy:
A few things but, most importantly, I think we all spend our lives quoting bumper stickers: ‘One life – live it’ and ‘this isn’t a rehearsal’. And then one day you wake up and realise what they actually mean!
It’s also important to say that I just didn’t have the confidence in myself to believe I have something to say. I still have the doubts, but I no longer think they are a reason to stay silent.
The turning point for me was the creation process of this album. I have described my studio as a ‘rock n roll confessional’. I’m alone in there with a DAW and some tech so there’s no-one to judge me. So it’s probably fair to say that I just got carried away in the moment!
Tehillah:
Your songwriting has been shaped by artists such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Randy Newman, and David Bowie, with storytellers and confessionalists becoming constant companions through difficult periods of your life. What did those artists teach you about using songwriting to make sense of your own experiences?
Music by Jeremy:
I’m a person that has never found a ‘tribe’. Life has always been a complex place and there haven’t been any easy fixes – believe me I’ve tried! Those artists described exactly that feeling and made some sense of the confusion and isolation. As for what they taught me about songwriting, I’m going to borrow John Lennon’s principle “say what you mean in three minutes and make it rhyme”. And I’m confident none of the others would argue with that!
Tehillah:
There is a striking honesty in your description of this record as a collection of scenes from a very fulfilled life, particularly because the songs do not avoid grief, dependency, moral failure, or uncertainty. How has your understanding of a “fulfilled life” changed through the experiences that eventually found their way into this album?
Music by Jeremy:
Your relationship with life changes dramatically over time but the emotions are pretty constant. Unravelling childhood (and adult!) trauma is very key to living a full life and to do that you have to go to some quite dark places. I think it comes down to a choice; a lot of shit will happen to you, and you have to look at where you’re contributing to it and/or how you can deal with it in a way that brings the best outcome rather than fighting to uphold someone else’s standards.
Tehillah:
You call the philosophy behind the album “joyous realism,” a way of confronting difficult truths without either despair or false comfort. Where did that philosophy come from, and how has it influenced the way you respond to painful or complicated subjects as a songwriter?
Music by Jeremy:
Joyous Realism is not a philosophy, it’s a conclusion!
Life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”, but it is also crammed with breath-taking beauty, and love and kindness.
To really get something out of life, you must embrace the whole damned lot!
Tehillah:
Across the wider project, you move freely between acoustic folk, soul, post-punk, synth-pop, blues, gospel, and even comedy rock, yet the songwriting remains recognisably yours. What allows you to move between such different musical worlds without losing the consistent voice that holds the album together?
Music by Jeremy:
I think the consistent voice is the lyric and the instinct behind it; the musical language changes because each song asks for something different.
Each song gets the treatment it wants with the tools I have to hand. My studio has two acoustics (steel and classical), a couple of basses (fretless and fretted), a hollow Telecaster and some MIDI tools (can I give a plug to the brilliant Spitfire Audio..). So it’s mostly a case of following my ears and getting a sound I like out of them.
Tehillah:
The title Scenes from a Well Worn Path suggests a life observed through individual moments rather than presented as one straightforward narrative. When you look at the 24 songs as a complete body of work, what do you think that path reveals about the person who travelled it?
Music by Jeremy:
I am a mature man who is still filled with curiosity and excitement for the world and the joy in life. My approach to writing the songs has been to hyper-focus in on a remembered feeling and let the words tumble out. Some of that has been profoundly difficult – crying in the studio has become quite normal. And there are still tracks that I struggle to listen to.
My hope is that someone listening to this will see that, however difficult the path can get, its well worth travelling.
Tehillah:
“Be Me” opens Side One with a driving indie-pop sound and a theme that is deeply personal: the quiet exhaustion of performing a version of yourself for other people’s comfort. What part of that experience made you feel that this had to be the opening statement of the project?
Music by Jeremy:
I wrote the song quite early on in the project – long before I knew there was a double album in it. I remember coming up with the guitar riff at home on a Sunday morning and feeling that it needed a powerful theme. It became a bit of an anthem for me personally and set the standard for everything that came from there – and I still listen to it when the ‘little voice’ tries to drag me ‘home’.
So, in the sense that the song made the project what it is chose itself as the opener!
Tehillah:
The album repeatedly returns to the difficulty of genuine human connection, the gap between what was promised and what was delivered, and the courage required to change. How do these ideas connect with one another in the personal world that exists behind the songs?
Music by Jeremy:
I have been married for a very long time to an incredibly beautiful and supportive woman and also have a fabulous adult Son.
We’re fed a diet of ‘the one’ and ‘true love’, but it just isn’t like that. Sure, you need to find someone very special, but that’s where the work starts not where it ends. To actually listen to another person, to be prepared to excavate the ground you’re standing on is where the connection happens. And that takes strength, courage and real persistence.
Tehillah:
Your writing can move from subjects as intimate as grief and nostalgia to subjects as unexpected as Keynesian economics, Schrödinger, plastic-eating bacteria, and the Romans straightening rivers. What draws you toward turning seemingly unrelated ideas into songwriting, and what does that intellectual curiosity add to the emotional side of your work?
Music by Jeremy:
I have always been a bit of an intellectual magpie. The traditional education system and I never had a great relationship, but I love literature, art, science and politics. To me these are all related at a fundamental level.
Knowing the works of Homer, Kafka and Spike Milligan does so much to inform your perspective on relationships and current events.
Tehillah:
One of the most unusual aspects of this project is that you created it largely alone, playing the guitars and fretless bass yourself while using generative AI trained on your own voice to provide vocals and drums. How did working this way change your relationship with the songs and give you the freedom to express things that might have remained hidden in a conventional band setting?
Music by Jeremy:
Completely. I am not sure there is a single song on the album I would have felt able to bring into a band room in its first form. Working alone meant I could stay with an idea long enough to discover what it was really saying before I had to explain or defend it to anyone else.
That level of exposure would not have been possible for me in a conventional band setting.
Tehillah:
The fretless bass has a particularly expressive role in the record, including on “4 O’Clock Train,” where you deliberately shaped the bassline around the protagonist’s racing heartbeat rather than perfectly quantising it. What does that decision tell us about your wider approach to using imperfections and human movement as part of the music?
Music by Jeremy:
Much like the previous question, this is about having the confidence to do things that felt ‘right’ instead of correct.
“Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One feels like an artist opening the door to a room he has spent years building privately, then inviting listeners inside without pretending that the journey has been simple. Its greatest strength is the willingness to let curiosity, vulnerability, humour and hard-earned perspective exist in the same space.”
~ Tehillah (DULAXI Team)
EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE
There is a compelling sense of freedom running through Jeremy’s approach to Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One. The songs are varied in sound, but the writing provides a clear centre, moving between personal experience, observation and wider ideas without losing its human scale. His home-studio process also gives the music an unusual intimacy, particularly in the way technology is used to support rather than define the creative vision. Most strikingly, the project approaches difficult experiences with curiosity rather than surrender, giving the music a distinctive emotional character.
~ Tehillah (DULAXI Team)
CLOSING
Thank you, Jeremy, for taking the time to speak with DULAXI and for sharing such an open and thoughtful look into the experiences, ideas and creative decisions behind Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One. This conversation offered a valuable perspective on not only the making of the record, but also the personal process of finding the confidence to allow long-held ideas to finally be heard.
For listeners discovering Music by Jeremy for the first time, Scenes from a Well Worn Path – Side One provides the opening chapter to a much larger musical journey, one built around songwriting, curiosity, honesty and an acceptance of life’s contradictions. We encourage readers to spend time with the release and follow the story as the remaining sides of the project unfold.
Thank you for spending this time with DULAXI. We look forward to bringing you more conversations with artists, songwriters, producers and creative voices from around the world.