Teenage Headache Dreams (with Ellie Rowsell)

"Teenage Headache Dreams" is a dreamy collaboration between Mura Masa and Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice. The song finds the pair looking back at a teenage romance, wondering if such escapism is healthy. Teenage headache dreams Come back to me at night And try as though I might to live for now I don't know how, I just feel down Masa said: "It's possible to feel happy even if it means relying on something that isn't necessarily true, or is half-imagined, or might not even have happened at all."

Masa's wrestling with the emotional crutch of nostalgia is a theme that runs throughout R.Y.C. "I think it must be some sort of reptile brain thing where it's like, 'Well, if I try and remember a good time, maybe that means there will be another one,'" the producer told The Guardian.

Mura Masa is best known for his electronic productions, but here he plays a spread of typical rock band instruments fueled by his childhood obsessions with bands such as Blur, Joy Division and Talking Heads. He told Zane Lowe on his Beats 1 radio show this was an attempt to "reflect this otherworldly idea I have about the music I grew up with." He added that he wrote the lyrics very quickly. "It felt like I was speaking from the heart about what it feels like to be caught up in the cycles of nostalgia, and how it feels to grow through that."