Ed Cosens shares new single Little Boy, the “most personal” song on his forthcoming album Somewhere Between Dark and Light, and announces performances at The Great Escape Festival and Deer Shed Festival on.

The gently string-laced acoustic meditation of Little Boy talks of the titular character “sitting in the corner, doesn’t know what he wants to be… the little boy is me.” It was partly inspired by the feelings of insecurity and self-doubt Cosens says have always plagued him. “It’s like, ‘What is my place in all of this?’ I felt that sometimes being in Reverend and the Makers with characters like Jon, so loud and effervescent, I’d struggle to be heard. I’m the exact opposite, really, I’m very quiet, happy to sit at the back of the room.”

That might just be changing though, as Cosens explains that one of the reasons he’s felt the urge to strike out on his own is to make his mark under his own steam. “I’m really proud of what I achieved in the Makers,” he says, “but I suppose now I’d like my story to be told and heard.”

He performs at Leeds Oporto on 23rd May and The Leadmill in Sheffield on 24th May.