Ty Freeman’s debut EP ‘One Way Love’ is out now, and it arrives with the kind of raw, lived-in energy that no amount of studio polish can manufacture. Recorded at Kempston Street Studios in Liverpool with producer Chris Taylor (The Coral, Bill Ryder-Jones, She Drew The Gun) and featuring Ian Skelly and Paul Duffy of The Coral on rhythm duties, the four-track collection draws deep from the blues-rock well. Deep Purple, Zeppelin, Sabbath, The Black Keys, early Kings of Leon, all present, all filtered through Freeman’s own ragged-edged voice and a production approach that kept click tracks out of the room entirely. The title track hits hard and direct, a throttle-down blues-driven track about unrequited love with genuine emotional weight behind every note.
Freeman’s path to this record is anything but straightforward. Raised in foster care in Merseyside, he found his footing through music, grinding through guerilla gigs on Liverpool streets before taking his craft to bars and clubs from Hamburg to Zurich, where he now lives. In 2025, childhood heroes Ian Skelly and Paul Duffy became studio bandmates. Of the sessions Freeman says: “I’d show them a song and within a few takes, no rehearsal, they’d nail it live in the room. Paul kept things anchored with melodic bass lines while Ian and I spoke our own language.” That chemistry is all over ‘One Way Love’. The EP is available digitally and on limited edition vinyl.