Soul

Soul, released on 5 January 2024 on his own Parrish Entertainment, runs eight songs. The count needs care. The promotional material of the time called it a ten-track album, yet the same document listed only eight titles, and a reviewer who heard the whole thing on release day wrote plainly that there are eight. Eight is right. Parrish described the record as a very personal one, saying the songs explore relationships, hard experiences, and finding the strength within yourself to get through them. The advance single "Poetry Glass" has a metalcore feel with breakdowns, and that texture carries on. Past the ballad "Stuck in the Dark" and the shove of "Fist Into the Air," the closer "I'm Still Here" is borrowed: it comes from Disney's Treasure Planet, and John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls sang the original. A man who made his name on covers ends his own album with one. Inside twenty-four hours of release it stood at number one in the United States, Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic — done with no major label money behind it, and helped along by word of mouth from his Wacken appearance the previous August.