[Cover photo credit to Joy Gansh]

Scottish indie artist Theo Bleak has released Bargaining, a new collection of songs available now. Bargaining is “a mixtape filled with heartfelt confessions, musings on grief, and desire for connection.”

Written throughout a transformative year in the songwriter’s life, in conversation with the journals of her late great uncle, Theo Bleak documents “cathartic moments of pain and hope.”

Theo Bleak describes the collection:

“A chronological mixtape of my year through the most intense stage of grief I experienced- bargaining. Coming to terms with change, which felt unsurpassable, deep love, and brutal honesty. My mixtape was recorded at each of the rawest, saddest moments. The creak of my studio chair was audible in some of the tracks where I sat down to reason with my life, my mistakes, and my choices.

I navigated the mess of my life over the last year, inspired by the complex philosophy hidden within simple sentiments, imparted through my late Great Uncle’s journals. I read and annotated these, rich with his passion for cycling. These diaries begin in 1966, and although John died in the early 2000s, I could feel the friendship as though the veil was thin between the living and the dead. My best friend.”

THEO BLEAK LIVE 2025

JANUARY

1 – Edinburgh, UK – Winter Festival First Footing 

FEBRUARY

5 – The Glad Cafe – Glasgow, UK