There's an ease to the music Riley Pearce makes. That's testament to how effortlessly he became a songwriter. Watching his dad in cover bands inspired him to pick up the guitar. By 17, he was busking at local farmer's markets—playing covers but sneaking in a few original folky compositions about what he saw around him or the relationships he had formed. Speaking about his song "Come Up for Air," Riley says, "I’ve always been lucky enough to work where my passion is and I wanted my wife to experience that same feeling. After Charlie was born she started a post-partum meal delivery business. She’s a nutritionist and is really passionate about that area of nutritional studies. She’s an incredible woman and done an unbelievable job in such a short amount of time. This song deals with our new realities of starting a business, raising a family, recording an album and the constant feeling that we’re struggling to stay afloat, always looking ahead to a time when we might be able to have things all back in balance. It’s a call out to the time when we had more time for each other and whilst we wouldn’t trade this new life for anything there’s definitely a yearning element to this song in being able to reconnect with someone. The sentiment in the song felt like it would just as suitably fit to all the other relationships that exist in my life that haven’t been as frequently tended to as they once were."