When a Photo Finds Its Song
Last fall, I stood at the edge of the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland, in the middle of a fog so thick it felt like the Atlantic was swallowing the land whole. The tower at O’Brien’s Watch perched on the far headland like a rumour — barely there, barely not. I took the shot and moved on.
I didn’t think of it as anything special at the time. Just a frame I liked.
A few months later, my friend Kevin Oliver — one half of the Calgary-based DJ partnership Boogie Hill Faders — reached out. He and his partner were releasing a new track on Liftoff Recordings and were looking for cover art. He’d seen my Ireland shots and thought one of them fit the mood they were after.
The track is called Back On My Feet, released on Liftoff Recordings. It’s a dance anthem built for people who know what it feels like to get knocked down and get up anyway — headstrong dreamers and payback believers, in Kevin’s words. It fits squarely in the BHF catalogue: a group that has remixed Lenny Kravitz, collaborated with vocalists across multiple releases, and built a reputation for groove-driven tracks that work both on the floor and on headphones.
Looking at that photograph again through that lens, I started to understand why he wanted it. There’s something in the image that only the fog makes possible. The cliff doesn’t dominate the frame — it emerges from it. That tower isn’t triumphant; it’s just still standing. The sea below is barely visible but completely felt. It’s a picture about endurance as much as place.
The label and the team took the raw photograph and transformed it — the foggy greens shifted toward teal and violet, the contrast pulled, the type set hard and bold against the softness of the cliffs. The result is a piece of cover art that works. It has energy. It earns the title.
Back On My Feet landed on YouTube Music’s New Dance 2026 editorial playlist on release day. That’s not a small thing. Editorial playlists are curated by human beings who listen to hundreds of tracks; getting placed means the music stood out on its own merits.
I’m glad the photograph got to be part of that.
You can stream Back On My Feet by Boogie Hill Faders on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and everywhere else music lives.