There’s an inviting gentleness to Where We Started, the debut single from Colin Mason.

It invokes the warmth of nostalgia and roads ridden together with a melodic reassurance. The finger picking folk and the rising, humable tune creates the feel of the natural world wrapped around you with a protective, nourishing wing.

It’s a wonder of pure song-writing, when a complete narrative can be conjoured through the delicate application of words and tunes, where the colours, hues, scents and sounds envelope you from the audio therms.

Where We Started evokes a real sense of returning home, and to the comfort that it brings. But also to your youngerself, without the judgment and scars the world bestows.

This is Colin’s debut single, and if you get the sense that sea-scapes linger large even in this short introduction, it could be because he grew up on the West Coast of Scotland and spent three years on sailing voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Let the tide of the tune take you back to a joyful, childlike time, protected by your older, wiser self.

Where We Started by Colin Mason is released on 10 November