Some voices carry the weight of where they come from. They do not just tell you their story. They bring the ground they walk on the air, they breathe, and the life they have lived straight into the sound. That is what you find with Amos.
Known also as Ryan Amos his roots and his life are tied between Blackpool and Chester. Two places in the North West of England each with their own character, their own history, their own way of shaping the people who live there. It is from these places that he draws his voice his perspective and the truth he puts into every line.
He is a rapper but first and foremost he is a writer of what is real. There is no fantasy here. No performance built for effect. He writes from what he knows. The days that test you the moments that lift you the things that stay with you and the things you learn to let go of.
Listen to his work and you will hear what matters to him. He speaks of love and faith of hardship and hope of the work it takes to keep going and the strength found in staying true to yourself. His words move between sharp observation and deep feeling. Clear enough to cut through the noise honest enough to feel like a conversation with someone who understands.
His latest body of work is called ‘Lost A Letter From The Alphabet’.
Here is how Amos describes it:
‘Lost A Letter From The Alphabet’ is more than an album to me.
It is a big hello like Trigger Happy.
It is a zipline shortened in the Chiang Mai rainforest.
It is a splash of rusty lemonade.
It is a night on the town then back to the crown plaza.
It is a 6 year hollibob on the Hoole drag.
It is a boiled sheep’s head in Istanbul.
It is a double shot with a celery stick.
It is a secret field full of little hills.
It is a measurement too small.
It is a knotted stomach about to burst.
It is a copperhead snake rushing past me.
It is a portion of Eton mess and elderflower gin.
It is a chocolate éclair in a miniature hero’s box.
It is a false sling for the fling.
It is a cables length from Granary Wharf.
It is a broken nose on a drinking binge.
It is a game of charades in the pharmacy.
It is a rushed drink in a neutral bar.LALFTA was recorded in a pretty unconventional chaotic manner.
Eldritch sent me bare bones drum patterns essentially click tracks and I laid verses over the skeletal framework.
He then warped them after I spat creating this wild backwards in time feel.
Dark moody and packed with the trademark travel laced imagery I have always been drawn to.
I almost did not release it.
There was a real question of whether it should stay buried under brochures but Plague Records is the perfect home for this misadventure.To The Listeners:
I do hope you fall madly inconveniently desperately in love with the multifaceted flavours and audio tangents alive through this peculiar piece of me.
It took well over a decade to summon the right spirit to my sofa and longer still to blag it into writing.
Given the subject matter and the surrounding fuckups I fluff the pillow to perfection and pray I never need to make such a true to life recording like this again.
It is a one-off game of hide and seek with the soft toys that had to become hard nuts overnight. Singular.
Sulky.
Sometimes cursed.
And when I look back on my pungent shelf of durian in years to go I imagine this one will hum the loudest buzzing with tiger stripe hoverflies too stubborn to stay.
-Amos
‘Lost A Letter From The Alphabet’ is released on the 1st of May 2026.
Physical pre orders are available from the 15th of April 2026 at http://Plague.co
He does not deal in ego or exaggeration. What you hear is exactly what he means. He uses his music to explore his own experience and in doing so he speaks directly to anyone who has ever carried a burden looked for meaning or tried to make sense of the world around them.
Amos does not claim to have all the answers. He does not present himself as anything more than he is. A man with a story to tell and a way of telling it that feels genuine unpolished and entirely his own.
Between the coast and the city between the bright and the quiet he has built something solid. His work is proof that the most powerful music comes not from grand statements or polished image but from speaking plainly honestly and from the heart.
Amos is not just a name. It is the sound of where he comes from and the mark he leaves with every word.
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Thanks for reading. Have a great week.
Dan (Co-Chair)
