From the depths of heartache and remembrance emerges My Turning Point(MTP), the moniker of Cardiff-based singer-songwriter Leon Evans, whose music reads like the rawest pages of a confessional journal. With an uncanny ability to distill life’s most profound emotions into sound, Evans crafts songs that feel less like compositions and more like whispered secrets carried by the wind. His freshly released single, “The Eulogy,” which came out today, March 23, 2025, is an unfiltered outpouring of grief, love, and the inevitable erosion of bonds once thought unbreakable.
From the initial notes, “The Eulogy” exudes an intimate, almost fragile beauty. A soft, piano enters, perfectly placed with its subtle harmonies bringing an ethereal depth to the composition. Then, the acoustic guitar ushers you in unexpectedly with it delicate strumming carrying a quiet melancholy that stays in the air the scent of old letters. This isn’t a song that demands attention with grandiosity; instead, it seeps into your soul, taking root in the quiet spaces between sorrow and reflection.
Then come the opening lines: “You and I were bonded by pain. Seen each other cry in the rain. Wrapped arms around our own fears. Wiped away each other’s tears” From this verse, MTP doesn’t just sing—he confesses. His words are neither sugar-coated nor overly poeticized; they are stark, unfiltered truth. The kind of truth that stings and makes your throat tighten as you recall your own ghosts.
Evans’ voice is the kind that lives with you once you encounter it. It’s tender and heavy with unspoken pain. There’s a quiet ache in his delivery, an unforced sincerity that makes every lyric feel like it’s being pulled from deep within his chest. He doesn’t over-sing or embellish; instead, he lets the weight of his words carry the emotion. When he reaches the chorus, “And I’m drowning in pain. Trying to breathe but I’m choking on your name. The words are pulling me down,” his voice trembles, not from weakness, but from the sheer humanity of it. There’s no filter between him and us—just unguarded, bleeding honesty.
At its core, “The Eulogy” is a farewell letter, a sonic obituary to a friendship lost to time and circumstance. Evans doesn’t just mourn his friend; he acknowledges the inevitable fractures that time and pain can carve into even the closest of bonds. He asks the question we all fear the most—can love survive beyond the end of the world?—and leaves us with an answer wrapped in quiet resignation: “But some things are not meant to be. And this is our eulogy.” This song will resonate deeply with you if you ever lost someone—not just to death, but to the slow drift of life. It doesn’t offer false comfort or clichés. Instead, it sits in the sorrow, acknowledges it, and lets it be. And in that, there is healing.
Recorded in his home studio, “The Eulogy” stays true to the raw, unpolished beauty of a singer-songwriter’s craft. There are no excessive layers, no overwhelming effects—just a man, his guitar, a piano, and the ghosts of his past. The stripped-down production allows the song’s emotional weight to breathe, each strum of the guitar and keystroke on the piano resonating like a quiet echo of grief. This minimalistic approach is what makes the song so powerful—instead of distracting listeners with grandeur, it sits with us, holds our hand, and whispers, “I know. I feel it too.”
My Turning Point has crafted something truly special with “The Eulogy.” It’s an experience, a moment of shared grief between artist and listener. If this is a taste of what’s to come from his upcoming album, “APATHY” (out March 26), then we are in for a body of work that doesn’t just speak to the soul, but unearths it. If you have ever stood at the crossroads of memory and loss, this song is for you.
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