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 of his song, 'Human' Riley says: "I wanted a song that somewhat captures the spiritual change I was going through. It was an indescribable shift or presence that suddenly made my life’s purpose feel more visible or tangible to me. I’ve always felt a bit uneasy in music about how self-focused it has to be at times and this new life that we’d brought into the world (by ‘we’ I mean my extraordinary wife Alex) had created such an incredible energy shift that made me feel more connected to what it meant to be a human in this world."