Katy’s brand new album lands on Friday 20th September! Watch the video for ‘Those Goodbyes’ below:
‘Those Goodbyes’ is the first single to be shared from Katy J Pearson’s upcoming album ‘Someday, Now’ which is released on Friday 20th September 2024.
Opened by pulled-apart, bent, stretched and filtered fragments of the Celtic Blessing — a tribute to her late godmother — ‘Those Goodbyes’ signals a shift in sound and heart for Katy J Pearson, whose sweetly-voiced acoustic hallmark rises to meet and meld with something murky, electronic and strange (but no less hooky). “I didn’t want it to be overly sincere” reflects Katy. “It feels right that it’s glitchy and fucked up, because life is glitchy and fucked up. It’s one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written. It was the song that made me realise I wanted to work with Bullion [producer of Someday, Now, whose other credits include Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard and Nilüfer Yanya], and that I was ready to make another record. I saw a new sonic journey that I could go on.”
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Following 2020’s Return and 2022’s Sound of the Morning, Someday, Now sees Pearson’s signature acoustic-led, sweetly-voiced singer-songwriter fare transmuted through the desk of electronic producer Nathan Jenkins, aka Bullion [whose previous credits include Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya and Avalon Emerson]. After a period of burnout, self-enforced exile from music-making, and solo travel, Pearson came back to her practice with clarity of mind and vision. “I knew exactly who I wanted to work with, I knew exactly who my session band were going to be, I knew where I wanted to record. It felt like I was finally calling the shots for myself, and that was so empowering”, she reflects. Having shied away from pop music since the souring of an early-career relationship with a major label (“it made me terrified of pop”), Someday, Now showcases the songwriter’s natural knack for a hook — presenting ten glistening tracks which are pop by nature, rather than design or demand. “I’ve found my way back to myself”, she summarises. It is a move both metaphorical and literal: Jenkins did not push Pearson to sing at the very top of her impressive vocal range, and helped her train herself out of an accidental American twang — instead making room for her to sing in her natural accent, cut soft by sandy Gloucestershire limestone. “Although Bullion was at the helm, I felt there with him, like we were co-producing. I felt so involved in my own music, which is ridiculous to have to say — but sadly, I think as a woman, it takes a long time to be confident in your assurance of what you’re trying to make; to trust yourself sonically in a studio setting.”
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Recent collaborations have seen Katy bend and stretch her versatile voice with the likes of Yard Act, Metronomy, Orlando Weeks and Wet Leg with whom, amongst other friends, she reinterpreted the score of The Wicker Man, in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary and most recently she announced two very special shows, both now sold out, in London and Bristol, where she will preview songs Someday, Now. Additionally, she has today announced details of an extensive U.K. / EU tour later in the year.
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