Irish alt-pop artist Ocean Tisdall has returned with ‘Sugar In His Tea’ following a 3 year hiatus which saw the young singer dig deep to write his most personal work to date. The Wicklow artist has been previously compared to the likes of Lewis Capaldi, Cian Ducrot and Troye Sivan thanks to his powerhouse vocals.

‘Sugar In His Tea’ is only likely to see such comparisons increase as he delivers this piano-led ballad which charts the collapse of a relationship.

“I wrote Sugar in His Tea kind of by accident, to be honest. I’d been with someone for two years when they asked if we could go on a break – and those two weeks of limbo felt like hell. I was a mess. At one point early on, I left the house just to get a coffee – because that’s all I could stomach – and on the walk, I started seeing him in strangers. I had to do double takes, realising it wasn’t him. I felt like I was losing it,” explains Tisdall of the slow-burning track.

“I sat down in a coffee shop, opened my Notes app, just to put down some thoughts and wrote: I’ve aged two years in two weeks. My diet is coffee. I’m seeing you in people on the street. Then I closed the app and didn’t think much of it.

Eventually, I flew back home to Ireland – I needed support, needed the comfort of family. I was talking to my Mam and said the words , If we do break up, the next person won’t know that he doesn’t take sugar in his tea. They won’t know he likes space when he’s falling asleep.”