Saint Harison was in the midst of working on a project that told the story of his upbringing when the fallout from a relationship hijacked his creative process. “As you can tell from the songs, it was one of those,” he says — meaning a relationship checkered with issues, which he explores on his new EP “Ghosted,” released this past Friday. “But there was really no plan for it. It finally came together and I had a project that was a storyline and I didn’t really know I was doing it at the time.”
“Ghosted,” which clocks in at a tidy eight tracks across 21 minutes, marks Harison’s first project in three years following his 2023 debut EP “Lost a Friend.” On it, he wades through the emotional wreckage of that relationship and the feelings that lingered from it, singing of someone gradually pulling away instead of just disappearing from his life on the title track and expressing regret for giving them his time on the swinging “Bad.” Harison delivers each song with bravado and precision, his sweeping vocals heightening the stakes at play across R&B-spangled production courtesy of D’Mile, Akeel Henry and Alex Lewis, among others.
Harison wrote much of the “Ghosted” EP in line with his usual process, penning songs in his bedroom and collaborating with some of the same musicians who worked on “Lost a Friend.” For the 29-year-old, it allowed him to unlock parts of himself that he kept shielded from the world at large. “I’m really bad at difficult conversations. It’s really like anxiety,” he says. “I go insular and go into my room or little home studio, and I just feel so confident writing it because in my brain, it’s like, I write so many songs. When it gets to the end of that process and I have these songs that are so great because they’re so emotional, that’s when it kind of hits where I’m like, I should put this out because it’s come from a real place.”
