I turned on “Farewell The World” late in the evening – and the very first guitar notes made me put my phone aside. Spanish musician Carlos Grassot released this EP on July 10, 2024, and it carries both a personal story and a conversation with the society he lives in. Recorded at Crosstown Studios with producer John Lawton, it sounds remarkably alive. Grassot’s path to this sound was winding. At 21, he moved from Spain to London, lived there for about a year and a half, then spent five years in Liverpool, where his musical voice took shape. He now lives in Wales, and “Farewell The World” carries something of this chain of farewells – to cities, to versions of himself, and to illusions about how the world should be.
The EP opens with “Wasting Songs” – a biting riff and raw vocals, anger threaded with a hint of hope. “We Won’t Be There For You” shifts the mood from a fist to an embrace: a call to stand together against those pulling the strings from above. Acoustic guitar and rhythm section breathe as one.
The heart of the EP is “The Wild”: calm strings, piano, and velvety backing vocals confronting everything that is wrong with the world. The finale, “Away On The Road,” brings acceptance, fresh air, and the city left behind. The answer is not in fighting, but in finding where to breathe.
Like Grassot’s own journey from Spain through foreign cities to Wales, these four tracks are part of the larger sixteen-track story “The Child And The World”, which began with “Farewell The Child” and moves from the personal to the universal.
The world we live in is a choice we make every day. “Farewell The World” feels like a farewell to our illusions about that world – before learning how to live in it again.
