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Rolling Stone AU/NZ Names
The Tortured Souls’ Single
“Unforgettable Days”
One of Their Best Music of the Week Picks

Poignant First Single From Australian Pop Rock Band
Led by Singer-Songwriter Justin Davies
Available Now
Listen to “Unforgettable Days” HERE

Official Music Video Filmed on Location in Queensland

Eagerly Awaited Debut Album Arriving Later This Year


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Best Australian Music of the Week:

April 27th-May 3rd

Justin Davies – “Unforgettable Days”

Perth singer-songwriter Justin Davies’ debut single as The Tortured Souls, “Unforgettable Days”, is a sweeping, piano-led introduction that leans into longing, memory, and the strange way certain moments in life refuse to fade. The song turns over fragments of love and loss until they start to glow again. There’s a cinematic quality to “Unforgettable Days” that immediately sets the tone. Soaring piano lines meet swelling strings and measured percussion, giving the track a sense of lift that mirrors its emotional core.



Official Music Video – “Unforgettable Days”

from Justin Davies and the Tortured Souls

Australian pop rock outfit The Tortured Souls make an instantly memorable debut with today’s premiere of their poignant new single, “Unforgettable Days,” available everywhere now following its exclusive premiere via Rolling Stone AU/NZ, who featured the song’s music video as “Video of the Week.”
And now, the magazine gives more praise for the song, naming it one of their “Best Australian Music of the Week.”

Produced, mixed, and mastered by multiple award-winning, 2x GRAMMY® Award-nominated producer/engineer Rob Grant (Tame Impala, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Death Cab for Cutie) and featuring singer-songwriter Justin Davies backed by a stellar lineup of Perth-based musicians including drummer Malcolm Clark and bassist Jay Cortez (both formerly of Aussie alt-rock heroes The Sleepy Jackson) and members of the internationally acclaimed West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the track is joined by an official music video, filmed on location in Queensland, streaming now at YouTube


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Justin Davies

“‘Unforgettable Days’ is about lost love, but maybe more importantly, the beauty and magic and foreverness that seems to surround you on certain days or at certain times in life,” says The Tortured Souls’ founder, singer-songwriter Justin Davies. “The wonderful feeling that envelopes and fills you and is ever-present, long after those days have past. It is a song of longing and loss, but it makes me feel a sense of promise and hope and nostalgia (maybe not in the lyrics, but in the way it ‘lifts’ in the chorus). And I guess I’m feeling that although life can be sad, there are times when it is also uplifting and overwhelmingly beautiful. The song reflects on someone I loved a long time ago, a young love, and how overwhelmingly wonderful our days were together. I remember the day (it was an actually day) when the light ‘was soft’ in the afternoon and laying on the grass in the middle of a farm paddock. I remember (too many times) kissing away tears when she felt she had been unloving toward me and was sorry. In the early years we would lay together and fall asleep humming and singing songs together. In later times, I did often reach for her to stay with me during the night and her kissing me goodbye (and how empty that felt). And although she left me, I regret not trying harder to keep her from leaving. But (still) within all of that, I can still feel those beautiful, magical moments (like the afternoon laying in the setting sun in the middle of a farm paddock) and the preciousness of those days lives on.”

Lyrics

“Unforgettable Days”

Justin Davies

Now that it’s done

You’ve taken everything and you’ve turned everyone

Now that it’s done

I’m feeling lost alone

And so far away from those

Days – unforgettable days

Yeah – and you’re unforgettable ways

Are they really gone

I wander through the nights all alone

Just waiting for some light to lead me home

Beautiful regrets

The curse of a love I’ll never forget

My regret

Is I let you go

And I’m so far from those

Days – unforgettable days

Yeah – and your unforgettable ways

Are they really gone?

I wander through the nights all alone

Just waiting for some light to lead me home

Just waiting for some light to lead me home

“Unforgettable Days” marks the first release from Justin Davies and The Tortured Souls’ deeply emotional full-length debut album, arriving later this year. Davies will herald the upcoming LP with an eagerly anticipated concert performance supporting Ron Sexsmith at Perth’s Rosemount Hotel on April 26. Additional dates will be announced soon.

Though Justin Davies did not set out to become a singer and songwriter, the lasting effects of a tragic personal loss and some serendipitous cosmic intervention placed him on a hitherto unforeseen path towards extraordinary artistic creation. The youngest member of a musical family that includes ARIA Award-winning musician/composer Ashley Davies and acclaimed singer-songwriter Tanya-Lee Davies, he had spent much of his adult life as a successful entrepreneur and businessman in his native Western Australia. Outside of his professional work, Davies also found time to devote himself to a wide range of philanthropic activities, instigated numerous fundraising events supporting local charities and a variety of national and international nonprofit organizations. But sadly, the untimely passing of a loved one to a fatal overdose more than two decades ago continued to haunt him, coloring his busy life with a bruising heartache and crushing disillusionment he simply couldn’t shake.

While visiting a local music shop in 2023, Davies found himself overpoweringly drawn to “the most beautiful guitar I had ever seen, resting there like it was waiting for me.” Despite little more than a rudimentary ability to play the instrument, he put down a deposit and took the guitar home with the idea of writing a song that would perhaps release some of irrevocable sadness and still-burning love he felt inside. Davies’s fingers intuitively found their place on the fretboard, taking him to the sounds he needed, admittedly without his actually knowing what chords he was playing. Lyrics came just as naturally, emerging from a place of truth and reflection as well as how he hoped others may have felt living through similar longing and regret. Music became his sanctuary, with songs flowing effortlessly until he found himself with more than enough material to consider making an album.


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Justin Davies’ The Tortured Souls

“Unforgettable Days”

Davies reached out to renowned producer/engineer Rob Grant, thinking the vintage analog equipment at his Poons Head Studio on the West Coast of Australia – including the Pultec EQP-1A3 tube program equalizer from the famed Rolling Stones Mobile Studio and a rare Fairchild 666 Tube Compressor from London’s De Lane Lea Studios that was in service during iconic recordings by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and others – would yield a sonic authenticity ideally suited to his classic pop songcraft. Taken with Davies’ intimate, evocative songs, Grant helped enlist a gifted assortment of local musicians who he believed would more than do justice to the purity of the material. The arrangements soon took shape from Davies’ original guitar-and-vocal compositions, with all involved falling into a place of genuine friendship and commitment to the project. Nothing was forced or expected, everything simply flowed from the essence or groove of where or how each song should be in its final form. Together, Davies and his collaborators – which he dubbed The Tortured Souls – forged a timeless yet idiosyncratic collection rich with organic spontaneity and emotional depth, with songs like the country-inflected “Never One To Love” and the grooving, Hammond-driven “No Tomorrows” each unfolding with collective harmony and ingenious spirit. 


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Just one year after his surprising musical journey truly began, Davies is now poised to shared his soulful creation with the world beyond. With “Unforgettable Days” – and more new music to come – The Tortured Souls weave vulnerable melancholia and wistful resilience into a bittersweet, empathetic baroque pop all their own.



“It’s time and meant to be,” says Davies. “It gives some sort of purpose and meaning to years of starting the days below zero. Without the sadness and searching, I wouldn’t have found my peace within the songs and the songs wound never have made their way to the surface. The feelings which had a hold of me would’ve held their grip – and the words and music would never have arrived. Thank goodness to be releasing the song, it’s not a very incredibly intricate or an overly complicated song, but it’s the best thing I have ever done.”

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