October 11, 2024 (CHICAGO, IL) — Today, indie pop singer-songwriter and “bittersweet optimist” Fiji Blue (aka Trevor Dering) announces the release date & tracklist for his long-awaited debut album Glide. Dedicated to his wife Natasha, who is currently battling brain cancer, the 11-track project is rich with achingly personal yet universally relatable anecdotes on love and loss, both platonic and romantic.
Born Trevor Dering, Fiji Blue finds creative solitude in the mixture of guitar-heavy storytelling, drawing inspiration from artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan & John Mayer. After accumulating over 300 million streams across three EPs—Reasons You Should Care (2021), Goodbye (2021) and I Loved You, What Happened? (2022)—Glide is Fiji Blue’s first proper album.
“This album was written during a period of personal transition,” he explains. “There’s a lot of adjustment that comes with dealing with the end of relationships, feeling stuck in the middle trying to process all these intense feelings at the same time…It was like starting from scratch, both emotionally and in terms of writing songs themselves.”
To tell the stories on Glide, Dering decamped to Topanga for a weeklong writing retreat, penning a song a day and getting lost in lush production – an ascendant helium balloon of synths, skittering electronics, and widescreen harmonies cut with the warm humanity of more organic instrumentation like piano and acoustic guitar.
Today, Fiji Blue shares the album’s third single “Start Over,” following previous singles “Peppermint” and “Angel.” The track was written during a period of personal transition and focuses on the adjustments necessary after the end of a relationship. “[It’s about] feeling stuck in the middle trying to process all these intense feelings at the same time,” shares Trevor.
This summer, Fiji Blue played some of his largest festivals to date. In July, he performed at Milwaukee’s SummerFest in support of COIN, Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party and headlined Chicago’s Wicker Park Fest. He followed this up in August with performances at Tokyo’s Summer Sonic and Jakarta’s Lalala Festival.
Start Over is available at all digital retailers now: https://fiji-blue.ffm.to/startover
Glide Tracklist
Angel
Adjust
Start Over
June
Peppermint
Where Do I Begin?
Shadow of You
One Last Time
Never Get Old
Pink
Beautiful
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
NORTH AMERICA
Friday, November 8th - Los Angeles - El Rey
ASIA
Thursday, November 21st - Singapore - Gateway Theatre
Saturday, November 23rd - Taipei City, Taiwan - Clapper Studio
Monday, November 25th - Shanghai, China - Sound Republic
Thursday, November 27th - Guangzhou, China - Sound Republic
Friday, November 29th - Manila - Podium Hall
Saturday, November 30th - Hong Kong - Clockenflap Festival
Tuesday, December 3rd - Seoul, South Korea - Musinsa Garage
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