Next month, Brigid Mae Power returns with her new album ‘Head Above The Water’ (5 June). Following the earlier release of ‘On a City Night’, Power today reveals her powerful new single ‘Wearing Red That Eve‘ which is also our Song of the Day. The accompanying video by Rob Curry, while simple in concept, is equally mesmerising.
“I wrote the lyrics for Wearing Red That Eve one day when I was sort of spacing out the window thinking about old memories and instances where I have been wearing the colour red… It’s sort of a dream-like song that drifts between truthful and imagined scenarios.” Brigid Mae Power
“The strong visual imagery in Wearing Red That Eve almost wrote its own video. The song showcases both Brigid’s voice and songwriting style, taking a series of personal experiences (hence the multiple Brigids’) and rendering them into something universal and transcendent.” Rob Curry, video director
Somehow, I feel like I’m prying. A bad detective sniffing out some controversy, some personal romanticism, some neighbourhood gossip. Brigid Mae Power’s songs are like an overheard lament, a scrubbed clean yarn with plenty unravelling in the process.
About to release her third album, the surely autobiographical ‘Head Above The Water’, her heart is on her sleeve, her words bobbing about as the tide changes. Much-travelled, doting on her nine-year-old son, Power has come a long way.
The new album was recorded in analogue studio The Green Door in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing alongside Brigid and Peter Broderick. It’s a continuing tale of everyday survival; more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes…
Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians (Alasdair Roberts, Peter Broderick, Brían Mac Gloinn, Stevie Jones, Hamilton Belk) lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics and a space for Brigid’s distinctive vocal style to spread itself across.
Brigid Mae Power releases her new album on 5th June via Fire Records.
‘Head Above The Water’ is available on Rough Trade exclusive ‘blue drop clear’ vinyl / indie-store exclusive white LP / black LP / CD
Pre-order: https://fire-records.lnk.to/