By entwining her acoustic roots with gentle electronic textures, singer-songwriter Cassidy Mann finds her true voice on debut EP, If It’s Not Forever. Co-produced with Roman Clarke, Mann notes that these emotionally driven pop songs serve as a catalogue of how her early relationships ended and why – and she hopes that other people will feel seen and comforted by her stories.

While processing one particular breakup, she remembers sitting on her bed and eating the same sour candy she once shared with the person she missed. When she discovered the metaphor – “this thing that seems sweet, but also physically hurts you if you have too much,” as she describes it – the reminiscent song “Tropical Sour Candy” emerged.