Piper Toohey has been on an endless journey of self-expression, from performing original songs at middle school talent shows to releasing self-produced singles on Spotify for small networks of close friends. On Saturday, March 20, they released “soup,” a collection of six acoustic songs, to the public. In the weeks leading up to its release, Toohey advertised the EP heavily on social media. By the time release day rolled around, “soup” had amassed a community of eager fans. “I felt like I needed to put something out,” Toohey said. It had been six months since the release of their last single, “Waking Up,” a collaboration with Meddus, and a full two years since their last EP, “The Bedroom.” “People were asking for it, and I felt like I was accumulating stuff that I needed to let go,” Toohey said. That sense of accumulation is what ultimately inspired the EP’s title. “A lot of these songs were inspired by the same person, but the second track is about a book that I read, and some of them are just, like, really random,” Toohey said. “That’s why it’s called ‘soup,’ because it’s just, like, ‘Here’s the soup.’” User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.