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London-based songwriter Sophie Jamieson today announces the release of her highly anticipated second album, I still want to share, due out January 17, 2025 via Bella Union. Co-produced in London by Sophie Jamieson with the Grammy Award-winning Guy Massey (known for his work with Spiritualized, Manic Street Preachers, as well as remastering The Beatles’ back-catalogue), the new collection presents a deeply personal reflection on the cyclical nature of loving and losing, the anxiety we cannot keep out of our relationships, and the perpetual longing for belonging that drives us to keep trying, and failing, to find home in other people.
The album’s breathtaking first single, “I don’t know what to save”, embodies this theme in its yearning for escape through Sophie’s endlessly emotive lyricism, building toward an exhilarating peak as it tumbles forwards. About the track, she said: “This song was some kind of running break for freedom. I was carrying the weight of my attachment to a person and all the pain entangled with them, but here came an out-reaching, a burst of energy and glimmer of hope. It was an enormous push towards letting go. The unbearable pain of detaching felt like entering some kind of eerie, unknown space that turned out, upon arriving, to be not only totally survivable but like pure, fresh air.” The song comes alongside an official video co-created by Sophie and fellow singer-songwriter, producer, film-maker and friend, Malena Zavala.
Watch / Share: “I don’t know what to save” video
If Sophie’s debut LP Choosing explored the self-destructive urge that swells from running away from one’s whole self, I still want to share muscles through, song by song, doing its best to face it. It lifts the lid on the roots of how we love and digs in even deeper, leaning into our deficiencies but doing so from a stronger, healthier place that is much less afraid of the pain that inevitably comes with feeling everything.
I still want to share also feels more exploratory, playful, and detailed with a richer palette. All the raw emotion of Sophie’s songwriting and vocal delivery is joined by some new characters: twinkly, toy-like omnichord, brooding layers of harmonium and sub-bass, as well as rich string arrangements - courtesy of Josephine Stephenson (Daughter, Ex:Re, Lisa Hannigan) - that weave a yearning connection through the beating heart of the record. “There’s a lot of warm autumnal colors, and then more glittery, dark, starry skies. Something about it all has really come together to illustrate some things that I didn't know I needed to articulate in this way”, Sophie explains.
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