Amid Wife's Brain Cancer Battle, LA Indie Singer-Songwriter Fiji Blue Shares Long-Awaited Debut LP 'Glide'

FIJI BLUE LA-VIA-PHOENIX INDIE SINGER/SONGWRITER SHARES LONG-AWAITED DEBUT ALBUM GLIDE   SHARES VIDEO FOR FOCUS TRACK “BEAUTIFUL,” DEDICATED TO HIS WIFE NATASHA RESCHEDULED NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ON SALE NOW   LISTEN TO ALBUM HERE | WATCH “BEAUTIFUL” VIDEO HERE

December 13, 2024 (CHICAGO, IL) — Today, indie pop singer-songwriter and “bittersweet optimist” Fiji Blue (aka Trevor Dering) shares his long-awaited debut album Glide.  The 11-track project is rich with achingly personal yet universally relatable anecdotes on love and loss, both platonic and romantic.   “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.”   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.    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. Notable features on the album include Conrad of Public Library Commute & Colin of Surfaces, who helped write & produce “One Last Time.”   After postponing his North American tour to be with his wife Natasha while she recovered from brain surgery, Fiji Blue will bring Glide across the US and Canada this coming February and March. The GIide tour kicks off Feb 4 in Washington, DC, and includes stops at Beat Kitchen in Chicago, Gramercy Theatre in New York and The Independent in San Francisco. Exclusive merchandise will be available at these shows, with 100% of the proceeds going towards brain cancer research. Glide is available at all digital retailers now: https://fiji-blue.ffm.to/glide     Glide Tracklist   Angel Adjust Start Over June Peppermint Where Do I Begin? Shadow of You One Last Time Never Get Old Pink Beautiful   Photo Credit: Joe Hunt

ABOUT FIJI BLUE   The story of Fiji Blue owes a debt to both coasts, but his genre-spanning sound is truly global. After graduating Berklee College of Music in 2019 with a major in songwriting, Phoenix-raised Trevor Dering relocated to Los Angeles. There, the Southern California cool of Fiji Blue became fully realized, swirling bedroom pop, indie, house, easy listening and R&B into a sun-kissed daydream.    A stamp of approval from BTS’s Jungkook elevated the single “It Takes Two” to the global stage in 2022, while tours in Southeast Asia, an appearance on Spotify’s New Music Friday and features by Ones To Watch (who hailed the “incredibly orchestrated” songs) introduced Fiji Blue to millions of new listeners. Now, more than 300 million Spotify streams and 20 million YouTube views later, Fiji Blue’s long-awaited debut album Glide (Nettwerk) is Dering’s strongest artistic statement to date, mourning endings and practicing love and gratitude for what remains with potent lyricism and a reassuring voice listeners won’t soon forget.   “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.”   There’s palatable emotion reverberating through every note, chord, and melody of Glide, balancing both the pain and affection that inspired them. At its most heartbreaking, it’s a rumination on those who never really leave us, the faint imprints that linger long after lives go their separate ways; at its most uplifting – the emotions Dering prefers to focus on – it’s rich with gratitude for his friends and family, a future full of hope and possibility. “I love sad music, and if I could only write sad music, I would,” he says with a laugh. “The thing I really love about Fiji Blue is having uplifting harmonic and production elements alongside lyrics that sit more in that melancholy world. Sometimes it’s nice to find that middle ground.”

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES   Tuesday, February 4th - Washington, DC - DC9 Wednesday, February 5th - New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre Sunday, February 9th - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall Wednesday, February 12th - Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground Thursday, February 13th - Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen Friday, February 21st - Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sunday, February 23rd - Seattle, WA - Neumos Tuesday, February 25th - Portland, OR - Polaris Hall   Sunday, March 2nd - San Francisco, CA - The Independent Friday, March 7th - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom Keep Up with Fiji Blue Instagram | X | TikTok | Website   ###