Katy J Pearson shares ‘Maybe’, the latest track from her forthcoming third album, Someday, Now.
Katy J Pearson’s music is the sound of the summer we should be having, as opposed to the one we’ve been gifted. Effortlessly evocative of long evenings cooled by a welcome breeze, of soft sand between the toes and the sweetest sounds on the FM dial, foot down and accelerating to the West Coast (of Great Britain), her songs are immediately transportive, possessing an uncanny ability to lift the listener out of the everyday and into a sunshine state.
September 20th sees the release of Katy’s third long player on Heavenly Recordings, the outstanding Someday, Now. Recorded with producer Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion) Joel Burton and a pair of Heavenly labelmates Davey Newington (Boy Azooga) and Huw Evans (H Hawkline), the album is home to the BBC6 Music playlisted single ‘Those Goodbyes’, and the recently released ‘Sky’ as well as new single ‘Maybe’, four mesmerising minutes of glorious ultra-melodic pop music.
“Barely a second of the album passes without a memorable hook, a brief, blinking, double-take illusion to R.E.M. or Kate Bush, Carol King or Arthur Russell” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Mojo
Talking about ‘Maybe’, Katy said:
I’ve had this song with me for years now — I wrote it about 6 years ago, and it was a little tiny soundbyte demo. Over the last few records I kept going back to it, but it just didn’t click. Heavenly heard it and loved it, and I was like I’m glad you like it but I hate it, it’s the bane of my life, this song is never seeing the light of day, no way. I was so stubborn, but the label really wanted me to put it on the record, so I tried to see if I could like it again.
It took a while to get it there. When I was in the rehearsal room with Huw Evans [H. Hawkline, Cate Le Bon], a few lyric tweaks happened. The chorus used to be maybe I need your love / to show me that I’m good enough and he was like why are you being like this to yourself? It should be the other way round! And I was like oh, ok, thank you, feminist ally in the room. When someone is telling me what to do in a studio I can get my back up pretty quickly, so it was brave of him to suggest it, but he was right.
When we changed the sentiment of the song [now maybe I don’t need your love / to show me that I’m good enough] my whole feeling about it changed, and it meant that we managed to actually get a handle on what it was meant to be like sonically. It just shows that it’s really important who you choose to have in a room with you.
Listen to ‘Maybe’ HERE
The track is accompanied by a wonderful video directed by Edie Lawrence and based around an archery competition, a sport widely recognised as pioneering equality for women’s participation.
Talking about the video, Edie said:
Katy and I first met on the ‘Alligator’ shoot, the last video I shot for her. Since then we’ve been great friends and excited to collaborate again. We’re both keen to support each other and other women in the creative industry, both being more than aware of the gender inequality in both of our fields of work.
The concept for this video is again about female empowerment. Throughout history, archery has had a link to female strength and empowerment. It is known as the sport that pioneered equality for women’s participation, being one of the first sports to include a women’s event in the Olympics in 1904.
This video is all about celebrating sisterhood and women working together. With a mostly female crew again, it wouldn’t have been made without the expertise of our extremely talented choreographer Sophie Chinner and costume designer Kiera Saunders. Sexism and misogyny is still rife in this world which is why celebrating and supporting other women is so important.
Watch the video HERE
Unquestionably her most confident, assured, and honest long-player to date, the ten tracks on Someday, Now shine with a brilliant lucidity showcasing Katy’s natural knack for a hook and the album, which is available on CD, standard vinyl and limited edition (U.K. exclusive) marble vinyl, is available to pre-order HERE
