[Cover photo credit to Tatjana Rüegsegger]

London-based songwriter Sophie Jamieson has announced the release of her second album, I still want to share, due out January 17, 2025 via Bella Union. Co-produced in London by Jamieson with the Grammy Award-winning Guy Massey (Spiritualized, Manic Street Preachers, remastered The Beatles’ back-catalogue), the new collection is a “reflection on the cyclical nature of loving and losing, the anxiety we cannot keep out of our relationships, and the perpetual longing for belonging that drives us to keep trying, and failing, to find home in other people.”

The album’s first single, “I don’t know what to save”, embodies this theme.

Jamieson says about the track:

This song was some kind of running break for freedom. I was carrying the weight of my attachment to a person and all the pain entangled with them, but here came an out-reaching, a burst of energy and glimmer of hope. It was an enormous push towards letting go. The unbearable pain of detaching felt like entering some kind of eerie, unknown space that turned out, upon arriving, to be not only totally survivable but like pure, fresh air.

The song comes alongside an official video co-created by Jamieson and fellow singer-songwriter, producer, film-maker and friend, Malena Zavala.

I still want to share features omnichord, harmonium and sub-bass, as well as string arrangements courtesy of Josephine Stephenson (Daughter, Ex:Re, Lisa Hannigan).

Jamieson adds:

There’s a lot of warm autumnal colors, and then more glittery, dark, starry skies. Something about it all has really come together to illustrate some things that I didn’t know I needed to articulate in this way.