"I wrote Couple Minutes kind of unassumingly; at first, I was just looking for an intro track to an album I was writing about mental health. The album spanned a phone call of someone reaching out to a friend during a depressive episode. So I thought I needed a song to lyrically open the call. I noodled out the song's recurring guitar line and sang the hook into a voice note and then produced the demo the next day and it became one of my best productions pretty quickly. 28 versions later, I had the final form. An is-it-pop-is-it-alt-rock, self-aware, larger-than-life, needs-too-many-hyphens headbanger that feels just as cathartic to scream in the car as it does to listen to in headphones before bed." - DB

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Lyrics :

What’s on my mind?
That question you’re gonna regret
Lucky I haven’t answered yet
Do you have time?
Cause I got a long, long list of shit
And you might get bored just listening

My head’s up in outer space
And I hear you call my name
My words are about to break
My words are about to break

Hey, can I be a bit vague?
Cause I just don’t know how to start on days like this
You have a couple minutes?
And hey, God needs to give me a break
Cause I been really in the dark on days like this
You have a couple minutes?

Cause once I start it ain’t no stopping mental health mobile go hop in oh yeah
This that shit that can define me, make me sleepless on the nightly oh yeah
And I don’t really wanna talk to quick, make you sick of me bitching in the
summer like I’m so hard done by
I know it’s not that bad
And I know I’m all woe is me like I can’t see all these goods I reap in these
satin sheets but
It’s hard to see what I have

My head’s up in outer space
And I hear you call my name
My words are about to break
My words are about to break

Hey, can I be a bit vague?
Cause I just don’t know how to start on days like this
You have a couple minutes?
And hey, God needs to give me a break
Cause I been really in the dark on days like this
You have a couple minutes?

If you care to notice, I’m having a moment
Syllables stolen from someone else
I might open slowly, let consonants hold me
I guess I’m just hoping to ask...

As a kid, Dempsey grew up listening to Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder while also taking interest in other areas of expression. Art that attracted his attention was often dark and tragic such as the works of painter Mark Rothko or dystopian writer Philip K. Dick. While sinking his teeth into playing and writing music, Dempsey enrolled in Astrophysics at the University of Alberta. After finishing his degree, instead of setting his sights on the stars he started focusing more on songwriting before eventually deciding to pursue music full time. Dempsey began producing demo tracks in his home studio inspired by the likes of Jack Garratt, James Vickery and Jordan Bratton.

Currently, Dempsey is working with Trey Mills, finishing his debut album Monochrome which deals with themes of love and the media, delving deep into how TV and movies create unrealistic expectations for romantic relationships.

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