In this episode of The Hardest Part podcast, Tigercub break down the songwriting and creative process behind their track, "Fall In Fall Out".

The track sits at the centre of their new album’s core tension, exploring contradiction, cycles, and the difficulty of articulating feelings that don’t fully make sense yet. Jamie explains how the song began with melody on acoustic guitar, before any clear meaning was attached. From there, the process became one of discovery, using stream of consciousness writing, dream journals, and notebooks filled with fragments to uncover what the song was actually about.

Kieron and Jamie explore the balance between instinct and editing, the challenge of writing without overthinking, and how meaning often reveals itself only after the song already exists. They also discuss the influence of dreams, literature, and film, and why leaving space for interpretation can make a song more powerful.

Guest: Tigercub

Song: Fall In Fall Out

Host and Executive Producer: Kieron Banerji

Creative: Callum Baker and Dylan Roberts

Recording Engineer: Giovanni Alimonte

Mix Engineer: Max Walker

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Sometimes the hardest part of songwriting is figuring out what you are actually feeling.

In this episode of The Hardest Part, Kieron Banerji sits down with Madi Diaz to break down the making of her track “Heavy Metal” and the songwriting process behind it. The song began as a feeling she could not fully access while finishing her record, something unresolved that she knew was there but could not yet put into words.

Madi reflects on the challenge of writing when you feel emotionally heavy, and the patience required to keep peeling back layers until the meaning reveals itself. The conversation explores how melody can arrive before clarity, how repetition can carry emotional weight, and how songwriting can become a way of understanding yourself in real time.

Guest: Madi Diaz

Song: Heavy Metal

Host: Kieron Banerji

Produced and Distributed by Palm Tree Island

Creative: Callum Baker and Dylan Roberts

Engineers: Giovanni Alimonte and Max Walker

Recorded at The Thin White Duke Studios, London

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What happens when you enter the studio with a song that is not finished and no time to figure it out?

In this episode of The Hardest Part, Kieron Banerji sits down with Julia Cumming and Nick Kivlen of Sunflower Bean to break down the making of their track “I Knew Love” from the album Mortal Primetime.

The song was one of the only tracks that was still being developed once the band entered the studio. With time, budget, and pressure all in play, they found themselves building the structure in real time, chasing a feeling they knew was there but had not fully landed yet. They talk about the origins of the song, from experimenting with open D tuning to pulling influence from artists like Nick Drake and Sonic Youth, and how collaboration helped unlock key moments in the track when ideas felt incomplete.

This episode is about the reality of self-producing, from trusting instinct under pressure to navigating disagreements and knowing when to push forward with an idea even if others are unsure. They also reflect on how a single lyric, “I knew love and it shined on me,” gave the song its emotional center and allowed everything else to fall into place.

Guests: Julia Cumming and Nick Kivlen of Sunflower Bean

Host: Kieron Banerji

Creative: Callum Baker

Produced by Palm Tree Island

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