Joseph O'Sullivan

Joseph O’Sullivan is an Irish, 22 year old singer/songwriter based in Navan, Ireland. After teaching himself to play guitar while studying Vocals in BIMM Dublin, he began writing his own songs with vocal influences like Moses Sumney, Phoebe Bridgers, Billie eilish and Lizzy Mcalpine among many more. After producing his first song ‘I guess we’re done’ and releasing it to SoundCloud alone, it garnered an audience of over three thousand listens. From here Joseph has been writing songs consistently in hopes to one day release and album.

“Leave Me” (released on the 13th of september 2024). Co-Produced with his good friend Seán Mulligan, “Leave Me” portrays experience of being driven by anxiety within a relationship exampling that its hard to be the one to finally cut the chord as it pleads for freedom. Written of a past relationship “Leave Me” holds an arc, beginning tense and dissonant, then proving frustration stemmed from continuous mistreatment to exerting relaxation within its bridge then leading to an abrupt release as the chord has finally been cut. “Leave Me” in its entirety, is a story of strength

SUNSHINE (released on the 28th of October), portrays the somber background of a somewhat happy nickname. SUNSHINE contrasts this very well by serving us a spoonful of sunshine on the chorus’s followed by a questionable aftertaste in the verses. Being written about a personal experience SUNSHINE’s story starts with a frightened beginning and an angered end intentionally.