Dessie Magee - 'Restrain'


One of Brighton's finest, Dessie Magee is back with his erupting new single ‘Restrain’.


Dessie Magee is back with an emotive and explosive new single ‘Restrain’.  ‘Restrain’ is the title track from his new EP, which is available to order on his website where you will also be treated to two unreleased bonus tracks which you won’t find on streaming platforms. If that isn’t a good enough incentive, I don’t know what is. 


Having had the pleasure of seeing Dessie perform myself a few years ago in London, I couldn’t wait to hear his new release and boy oh boy was it a treat. This track starts with gentle textures and picked guitars and by the end of the first chorus were transported to rocky, thrilling and intense world reminiscent of Frightened Rabbit or The National

The intensity comes at the end of each chorus and is also the chilling final words of the track with the lyrics  “f you reach your destination then you're comfortable in your own skin” . With the one line Dessie sums up the narrative of the song that he describes as ‘Restrain is about the discipline we all sometimes lack, some more than others. It's about watching someone you care about not looking after themselves’.


This is alternative folk at its best and it’s available now. 

Words of Tamara Grzegorzek