Irish-born, Bristol-based artist Jenny Lindfors, who records as Sailing Stones, is premiering the video for new single A Promise To Love below, ahead of its release tomorrow, February 11th. The track is the first single from her forthcoming sophomore album Slow Magic, out July 3rd (Self-Released).
A Promise To Love explores the colour red, focusing on the fractured, otherworldly quality of early morning parenthood and the struggle to adjust. “a ribbon of light/ a line in the hallway/a voice in the doorway,” Lindfors sings, capturing moments that feel suspended between celestial visitation and something altogether more unsettling. The track distills those strange hours when time stretches and compresses simultaneously—a fitting introduction to an album built around such shifts in perception.
The video for A Promise To Love was filmed by Julian Ward and edited by Jenny Lindfors. Watch the premiere below.
Slow Magic marks Lindfors’ most ambitious work to date, with each of its twelve tracks assigned to a different colour and mapping the physical and emotional transformation of matrescence. Self-produced by Lindfors, with haunting arrangements by her partner, composer Dan Moore, the album was recorded between home sessions and a chapel-turned-studio in rural West Wales. As noted by Welsh journalist, lecturer, arts critic and broadcaster Jude Rogers accompanying insightful press notes, the sound channels the country heat of Bobbie Gentry, Scott Walker’s gutsy spirit, and Linda Perhacs’ uncanny beauty, filtering hazy woodwind, warm guitars and spacey electronics through malfunctioning tape machines.
The album follows Lindfors’ 2020 debut Polymnia, released the same year she had her first child. Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold has called the new work “a masterpiece,” and for listeners drawn to Joni Mitchell, Laura Marling, or Scott Walker’s expansive approach to songcraft, Slow Magic offers twelve kaleidoscopic windows into recognisable yet transformed worlds.
Rather than following any trend, the album offers something more personal and panoramic: a communal recognition of an experience that fundamentally reshapes identity. The songs move through joy, dissociation, loneliness, rapture, desire and desperation with striking clarity. Lindfors wanted the sound to echo her expansive, multi-faceted inner world while maintaining an uncanny undercurrent of darkness. David Axelrod, The Electric Prunes and Jefferson Airplane were among her textural references. “I personally found the whole experience of early motherhood to be very psychedelic,” she explains.
Slow Magic is out on July 3rd and is Self-Released.
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