For Those I Love – No Scheme
David Balfe’s ‘No Scheme’ comes in as a stark meditation on the change from youthful confusion to adult disorientation.
This song serves as both a follow-up and a harsh criticism, where Balfe’s spoken words break through electronic sounds, much like a shared moment that has turned out badly.
The production keeps up the same kinetic energy that made his 2021 self-titled debut so exciting, but now channels that intensity toward the banal violence of office life and societal resignation.
Balfe’s approach to self-reflection acts like a funhouse mirror, distorting familiar anxieties until they become impossible to ignore. Accompanying the live performance video of the artist jogging while delivering his breathless monologue, the act of physical movement becomes a metaphor for the never-ending hamster wheel of modern existence.
Released as the second single from his forthcoming album ‘Carving The Stone’ (out August 8 via September Recordings), ‘No Scheme’ is a song for anyone who has ever felt caught in that in-between place — not quite the person they were, not yet fully the person they’ve become.
The song is powerful because it doesn’t try to give easy answers—it just sits with the discomfort of recognising one’s hypocrisy while still searching for meaning in increasingly confusing times.
Tracklist:
- Carving The Stone
- No Quiet
- No Scheme
- The Ox / The Afters
- Civic Mirror
- This Is Not The Place I Belong
- Of The Sorrows
- I Came Back To See The Stone Had Moved
Tour Dates:
23 Sep 2025 – The Fleece, Bristol, UK
25 Sep 2025 – Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK
28 Sep 2025 – Gorilla, Manchester, UK
29 Sep 2025 – Room 2, Glasgow, UK
1 Oct 2025 – Limelight 2, Belfast, UK
2 Oct 2025 – Cyprus Ave, Cork, Ireland
3 Oct 2025 – Mike The Pies, Listowel, Ireland
5 Oct 2025 – Black Box, Galway, Ireland
6 Oct 2025 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
