The keen reader might remember US-based, UK-born creative Untold River from a feature we published back in 2025. Now, he’s back with a brand new offering, ‘Time To Start Over’. Acoustic-inspired, but fuller and three-dimensional, the single moves with quiet restraint and hypnotic charge, letting Untold River’s delicate, kind vocals take the lead and inspire listeners worldwide.
The song is bound to be incredibly relatable, as it captures all of the angst and anxiety surrounding 2020 and all of its chaos. For Ciaran Egan (the human behind the project), that meant leaving an established life and starting from zero once again. Music and songwriting stayed with him and provided a powerful outlet for personal expression, translating into highly passionate and introspective material. The stripped-back arrangement helps convey such intimacy and wisdom, although we are big fans of the ethereal, texture-esque elements in it.
Delving deeper into the meaningful premise behind ‘Time To Start Over,’ Untold River explains: “Everything was changing at once. I was leaving a band I’d been in for seven years, moving out of the city, and then suddenly the whole world had stopped. It felt like my own life was being reset at the same time as everything else.” We suspect this to be a common experience, especially during the pandemic, a profound and often tragic period of change and renewal.
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