Fenne Lily vender til april tilbage med albummet Big Picture
Fenne Lily annoncerer i dag sit nye album Big Picture, der udkommer d. 14. april 2023 på Dead Oceans / Playground Music. Førstesinglen ’Lights Light Up’ fra det kommende album ledsages af en tilhørende musikvideo instrueret af Haoyan of America, og er optaget i New York, hvor britiske Fenne Lily nu er bosat. Se videoen her.
’Lights Light Up’ er en profetisk og indsigtsfuld fortælling om kærlighed. Teksten er til dels skrevet som en samtale. Sangteksten beskriver ømme detaljer fra et spirende forhold; den bittersøde sandhed at det kun er muligt at gå sammen med nogen, hånd i hånd, så længe det er i samme retning som dem. Med sarte guitarlinjer, fremdrivende rytmer og et omkvæd, der føles på én gang dybt personligt og samtidig universelt.
Fenne Lily fortæller: “I’d never really written about love in the present tense before this, but even though I was still in love and not thinking about the end, there was something else going on subconsciously that led to a song about moving on before the moving on had begun. When it came time to record, the band and I had been playing it live for a while and it’d become something joyful and positive, but when I started recording vocals, the lyrics made me cry. By that point the song was over a year old and I thought those wounds had healed but I guess it hurt to admit I’d been letting go of something while still trying to hold on."
Efter Fenne havde skrevet Big Picture alene i sin lejlighed i Bristol, teamede hun op med produceren Brad Cooks (Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Snail Mail), for at indspille albummet i hans studie i Durham. Udover Fennes faste band, bød indspilningen af albummet også på gæsteoptrædener fra Christian Lee Hutson og Katy Kirby.
Albummet er et smukt og gribende portræt af Fenne Lilys seneste to år. ”Writing this album was my attempt at bringing some kind of order to the disaster that was 2020. By documenting the most vulnerable parts of that time, I felt like I reclaimed some kind of autonomy,” fortæller Fenne.
Og det er vitterligt blevet til et smukt album! Som Fenne Lily selv siger, ”We only really know the one world we find ourselves in at any given time. And it’s only when that world changes or collapses that we realize there are other narratives available — that we’ve known only one of many possible ways to exist.”
Fenne Lily spiller på Vega d. 28. april 2023.