![]() ![]() “Blue was always a colour associated with being down but I thought Brightest Blue was a good way to accept that you’ll always have those kind of feelings, but learning how to illuminate them.” So, Brightest Blue is just being able to find the light in sadness really. “So I always have this theme of bitter sweet or melancholic where you overcome these days of sadness. “Halcyon Days (the title of the re-issued 2012 album) is the days of happiness that come after a lot of turmoil,” she says. I immediately felt this feeling of warmth and happiness, and then I went to the studio and wrote the title song Brightest Blue.”īut the title, she reflects, also shares similarities with the monikers of previous records like 2012’s, Halcyon. “I went to an exhibition by Doug Wheeler and it was essentially walking into a blue, luminous room, where you can’t escape the blue. She explains: “I moved there for a couple of years (New York) and the one thing I noticed, there was always a new exhibition or a new opening, a new showcase of a new artist and so I was just immersed in art for a few years. But rewind the clock and it was during her time living in the US and a visit to an installation by American artist Doug Wheeler that she found some album inspiration. The pop hitmaker,33, releases her fourth studio album, titled Brightest Blue, on July 17, as well as a newly-announced UK tour in the spring of 2021. ![]()
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