Amelia Coburn
Amelia Coburn announces new single and album!
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Acclaimed north-east artist Amelia Coburn has announced her second album, Myself and Other Monsters, due to arrive on 5th March 2027, alongside new single I Just Want To Say.
Renowned for her vivid, gothic-tinged storytelling, Coburn’s new record is a cabinet of curiosities, where the supernatural hides within the domestic and beauty exists alongside the grotesque. Musically, it reaches for dreamlike arrangements and cinematic crescendos, with production, as with her debut, Between The Moon and The Milkman once again, by Bill Ryder-Jones, shifting from theatrical brass to melancholic strings and haunting harmonies.
Speaking of the album, Coburn says “While writing and recording the notoriously ‘difficult’ second album, I found myself wrestling with something far more difficult than the record itself: my relationship with myself. Like many people, there are parts of myself that I prefer not to acknowledge: selfishness, jealousy, obsession, resentment, and ultimately the distressing fact that I am capable of acting in ways I do not recognise. I had spent a long time trying to suppress these facets of my personality, but realised that the more I tried to suppress them, the more insistently they would resurface.”
Offering the first glimpse of the record is the uncanny new single I Just Want To Say, which comes paired with a playful video that nods to Amelia’s love of film. Written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator: a woman sending love letters to a serial killer, exploring how love can tip into obsession. As Amelia explains: “It’s inspired by hybristophilia – the intense attraction some people feel towards criminals. Where is the line between love, lust and obsession, and how far would you go for the person you believe is the love of your life?”
Coburn has a knack for making the unusual sound timeless. Drawing inspiration from gothic literature and the inherent mystery of vintage horror films, there is a darkness at the heart of many of her songs, populated by vivid characters and nocturnal creatures. The album also includes a collaboration with Paul Weller, a long-time champion of Amelia’s music. She guested on his last record, Find El Dorado, and later joined him on tour for sold-out shows in Newcastle and Liverpool.
Of Myself and Other Monsters, Coburn turns that darkness inward, “Although the album began with something intensely personal, it is not a straightforwardly autobiographical record. Once I began looking at my own darker impulses, I wanted to examine the “monsters” that exist beyond myself: spectral creatures, morally ambiguous characters, unreliable narrators and the strange ways in which people can become monstrous, or be made to feel monstrous.” At its heart, Myself and Other Monsters is an attempt to look unflinchingly at the contradictions within ourselves and the world around us, and to ask the listener where the person ends and the monster begins…
This December sees Amelia play her biggest full-band headline shows to date, followed by an extensive solo tour before returning to the Royal Albert Hall for a special album release show. Ticket links can be found via her homepage
03.12 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
04.12 Manchester Yes Pink Room
05.12 Gateshead The Glasshouse
28.01 Glasgow Oran Mor
30.01 Cockermouth Kirkgate Centre
04.02 Lytham St Annes Lowther Pavilion
05.02 Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room
06.02 Beverley St. Nicholas’ Church
07.02 Hutton Rudby Village Hall
11.02 Nottingham Metronome
12.02 Cambridge The Portland Arms
13.02 Brighton Komedia Studio
18.02 Aldershot West End Centre
19.02 Portsmouth Square Tower
20.02 Exeter Phoenix
21.02 Cardiff Acapela
24.02 St. Albans The Horn
25.02 Poole The Lighthouse
26.02 Pontardawe Arts Centre
27.02 Dorchester-on-Thames Bishop’s Court Farm
05.03 London Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room)
For more information visit Amelia onFacebook, Instagram and Twitter
Phot courtesy of Measure PR
All words by Iain Key. See his author profile here or find him via his LinkTree
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