Yoshika Colwell has announced the release of her debut album ‘On The Wing’ on 25th July via Blue Flowers. We’ve already heard two enticing tracks: Last Night, featuring Rachel Horton-Kitchlew on harp and Joe Harvey-Whyte on pedal steel and Fighting On The Wing, a song edged with a pastoral lightness that focuses on beginnings and endings throughout life. Both were accompanied by equally striking videos, created by Tilly Wace who has collaborated with Yoshika on all the album’s creative.
To mark the album announcement Yoshika is releasing another single today. ‘There’s Got To Be A Loser Babe’ is accompanied by another visual accompaniment from Tilly.
Speaking about the album, she says
“This album is a bit of a shrine I suppose to all of the pivotal experiences that shaped me during my twenties and it’s also, I feel, a tentative lean towards hopefulness for the future.
It is, at its core, an album about acceptance and release, and freedom from old binds. It was an extremely emotional and cathartic record to make. It was a challenge to put all of the things I was scared to say into these songs, to finally let them out of my head without shying away from the ugly or unpalatable emotions, but it felt like the only thing to do.
The process felt quite ritualistic, akin to writing down the things you know you need to let go of on a piece of paper and burning it.”
‘On The Wing’ will be available as Limited coloured LP w/ bonus track (DINKED Edition), Standard LP, CD and Digital.
Pre-Order: https://yoshikacolwell.ffm.to/on-the-wing