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It all started with a trip to Malibu, California, for Myles Smith and his best friends and co-collaborators, Jesse Fink and Peter Fenn. They were looking to escape the city and write some songs together. About five days in (and 30 songs later) Smith says, “we’d drank way too many beers and had way too many tacos and feelin’ like trash.”

And yet, that’s where the breakthrough happened.

It was then that they decided to write a song without trying to be clever or using double entendres. They would just write and express an emotion for what it is. That’s when they came up with Stargazing.

Performing that song live at the BRITs was a major highlight for him. “So surreal you know?” Smith says. “Especially in Britain when you grow up you watch the BRITs every single year and as a musician, like it’s probably like the JUNOSover here (Canada) you know? You just can’t wait to …

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