Champ, from North Eastern England, takes what it feels like to grow up in a small town, bottles and distills it into their latest release, “Born in the Wild End”. The crushing weight and expectations of tradition. The desire of your elders for you to continue to do what they have always done, versus your desire to very much not do that, and your need for something more. This song evokes a weird sense of bittersweet nostalgia. Sweet, because you yearn for a time when you had it all figured out, because back in your small town, everything seemed so simple. Bitter, because you now know that simplicity never really existed. This heartfelt retrospective is set to a smooth rock soundtrack with a soaring guitar solo to carry you out of the back end of the song. It’s the perfect punctuation to a song that is packed with so much raw emotion.
Written by David Robison
