Katie Gregson-MacLeod has shared new single ‘James’, featuring fellow Scottish artist Joesef, taken from her upcoming EP ‘Love Me Too Well, I’ll Retire Early’, due 4th July.
The track, co-written with Joesef and Josh Scarbrow, explores themes of trust and new relationships. “[‘James’] is a song about trust. Feeling so at home with someone so early, but retaining the residual suspicion of former relationships,” Gregson-MacLeod explains. “The song was written very quickly, and for a while I thought I would change the central line ‘But how will I know if it’s the real thing?’. However, after living with it for a year before recording, I realised that that question was the song itself. It was the first time I’d thought about what I wanted in a relationship, instead of worrying only if I was what they wanted.”
The five-track EP, recorded at Edwyn Collins’ studio in Helmsdale and produced by Josh Scarbrow, follows her departure from her previous label and return to the Scottish Highlands. “It’s a project that celebrates smallness, as that was how I could best understand love and music at the time,” she says.
Gregson-MacLeod will perform the EP live during her upcoming UK and European tour.
The dates in full read:
SEPTEMBER
26 The Green Room @ The Academy, Dublin, Ireland
28 Black Box, Belfast, UK
30 Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK
OCTOBER
1 Church, Dundee, UK
2 Tolbooth, Stirling, UK
4 Soup, Manchester, UK
5 Headrow House, Leeds, UK
6 The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham, UK
8 Louisiana, Bristol, UK
9 Alphabet, Brighton, UK
12 La Belle Angele, Edinburgh, UK
13 Òran Mór, Glasgow, UK
19 Omeara, London, UK
20 Omeara, London, UK
27 Privatclub, Berlin, Germany
28 Jaki, Cologne, Germany
30 Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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