ACCLAIMED SCOTTISH SINGER, SONGWRITER DOT ALLISON NEW SINGLE AND LYRIC VIDEO "CAN YOU HEAR NATURE SING?"

ACCLAIMED SCOTTISH SINGER, SONGWRITER

DOT ALLISON

 

NEW SINGLE AND LYRIC VIDEO "CAN YOU HEAR NATURE SING?" RELEASED TODAY

 

NOW STREAMING ON ALL DSPS// LISTEN HERE

 

WATCH LYRIC VIDEO HERE 

 

FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM "HEART-SHAPED SCARS" JULY 30 ON SA RECORDINGS  PRE-ORDER HERE

 

 

Photo Credit: Essy Syed (All Rights Reserved) 

After the haunting lead single Long Exposure heralded the release of Heart-Shaped Scars - Allison’s first album in 12 years and her most personal to date - Dot Allison unveils another new single and lyric video, ‘Can You Hear Nature Sing?’, out today on SA Recordings. With Allison’s vocals at its most ethereal, the single is tranquil in sound and passionate in spirit.

 

‘Can You Hear Nature Sing?’ originated from a poem written by Dot after her friend and poet Stuart McKenzie recommended some of his favourite poets.“On reading some of the work I wanted to use my immediate natural environment to write a poem” Dot explains. The result was ‘Emblems’ set in an autumn landscape. Later, when Dot and Zoë Bestel  decided to write a duet for the new album Dot suggested ‘Emblems’ as “a starting point for the lyrics” As it transpired it proved fundamental in shaping ‘Can You Hear Nature Sing?’,  providing much of the lyrical content.

 

Premiering on Big Takeover today, they describe that "In the video, antique gold-colored lyrics unfurl on the screen against a sage green backdrop, and various natural designs appear and then fade away in keeping with the subject of the lyrics. When Allison sings of “autumn’s touch” an oak leaf floats to the ground, and on the harmonizing chorus of “a myriad of melodies”, various plants spring to life, growing, budding, and blossoming. The images weave a visually bucolic spell that mirrors the intent of the music". They continue "Allison's emotions are clarified and delicately rise to the surface as she imbues a wistful longing to the versus ("hollowed seed/occasional thorn...") and a bittersweet wryness on the chorus secions".

 

Dot’s interests in music, literature, science and nature are integral to Heart-Shaped Scars overall aesthetic. It’s backdrop of exquisitely sparse and intoxicating dream-folk evokes Dot’s vision for “a pure kind of album that musically imbues a return to nature. I wanted it to be comforting like a familiar in-utero heartbeat.”

 

The album is produced by Allison alongside Fiona Cruickshank, with Hannah Peel adding string arrangements to four songs, courtesy of a quintet of Scottish folk musicians. Recorded at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh - Dot’s home town - the sessions include new collaborations with singer songwriters Amy Bowman “The Haunted” and Zoë Bestel on new single “Can You Hear Nature Sing?”.