Arjay Sharp is a Long Island-born, Colorado Springs-based singer/songwriter, who specializes in a genre-defying take on Adult Contemporary pop. The Colorado Springs-based artist’s latest EP, the six-song Quest for Redemption tells the story of a friendship complicated by unrequited love that spans a 14-year period. Sonically drawing influence from an eclectic array of influences that includes Billy Joel, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Toto, the album’s material thematically touches upon desire, disillusionment and self-discovery.

The EP’s latest single “Adri I Gotta Go” is a deliberately crafted, hook-driven gem that seems to channel Dishwalla‘s “Counting Blue Cars,” Duncan Sheik‘s “Barely Breathing” that describes a the bittersweet resolution of a relationship through the prism of honest hindsight with a novelist’s attention to emotional and psychological detail and lived-in, heartbroken experience.