Sad Bastard EP is a two-song portrait of a mind waking up. It begins with The Light You Chased, a crooked piano waltz that puts on a smile it can’t quite hold. The melody moves like a barroom entertainer trying to keep spirits high while the floor beneath everyone tilts. The voice refuses the act. It questions who built the scales of this world, what was promised to us, and why so many quietly accept cages as homes. It captures the moment you realize the system was never made for you, only leased to you at cost.

Mano Maya carries that realization inward. Recorded as a single live performance, the piano taps like nerves firing, then sinks into slow, weighted chords. There is no polish, only the breath between phrases and the tension of holding yourself together. Subtle distortion warps the edges like city light on wet pavement, mirroring the chaos of a restless mind. Where the first song examines the world, this one confronts the self: identity, memory, expectation. Instead of ending neatly, it opens—toward possibility, toward uncharted ground, toward whatever comes after the illusions fall away.

Sad Bastard EP is not about heartbreak. It is about the quiet violence of living in the modern world, and the small act of refusing to look away.