Well, one thing’s for sure. This life is specially designed to break hearts into pieces that can never be glued back together again. And it’s looking for you as its next victim. The best thing that you can do is prepare. Like young boxers voluntarily break their noses before an opponent has the chance to do it, it’s up to you to get a few cracks in before anyone can come in and do some real damage.
But how can you acquire that practice-hurt without risking irrevocable, fatal damage? How can one practice for the terrible things that surely await them? As things stand, there is nothing that reaches a modern human’s imagination than songs, and there are few better songs than the ones written about heartbreak.
Tristan Turdean knows this first-hand. The songwriter’s EP, “5 Songs to Get Over You”, isn’t just a diary of heartbreak, misery and, ultimately, acceptance. Use it wisely, and this can be your handbook for a trip that you’re not ready to undertake, but that’s waiting for you no matter what.
It plays like a story with a beginning, middle and end. The opening track, “Remind Me When You Return,” with its moody guitar arpeggios stretched over pacey drum grooves, is the part in the tale when things start going wrong. The love interest departs. Over the song’s catchy chorus, Turdean dares to dream of a reconciliation.
But does it happen? No, the pain’s intense enough to push the songwriter into all sorts of directions that are best avoided. Thankfully, it helps to inspire the melancholy-filled, but memorable tracks “Egirl” or “Tell Me That You Love Me Too.”
Love is hiding in all the right places, but that’s not where the songwriter is searching for it. By the time the EP reaches “Miss U,” with its mellow, soulfully sung parts, Turdean begins to see the error of those ways. The song contains, perhaps, the EP’s best chorus.
Where does it all leave us? On the playful closing track, Tristan Turdean is ready to move on. “Leave You in the Past” is an anthem for everyone struggling to move on, improve, and make better mistakes.
But what about everyone who has not yet gotten their hearts broken? Practice! It’ll happen. And the “5 Songs to Get Over You” EP may just be the perfect place tos start that inevitable journey.
