After earning Radio 1 airplay and critical adoration for her previous album, ‘Memory Girl’, Natalie McCool presents something altogether bigger and more ambitious with the release of her new record ‘Good For The Soul’ on September 9th, now showcasing its boundary-breaking, genre-bending alt-pop qualities with the new single ‘We’re The Ones’. Listen to ‘We’re The Ones’ HERE.
With ‘We’re The Ones’, Natalie thrills with dynamic contrasts: the spacious, airy verses which allow the exquisite beauty of her voice to flourish at the forefront of the mix, with the thunderous, energising beats that get the fun started. Lyrically it’s a song which sits on the cusp of different life stages – the freedom and infinite possibilities that come in the first burst of young adulthood, with the maturity to realise that things won’t be this way forever. As she sings, “taxes and menopause” are waiting in the future, but right now it’s all about living in the moment.
As ‘We’re The Ones’, ‘Coming of Age’ and ‘I Fantasise’ all showcase, ‘Good For The Soul’ is an album defined by musical adventurousness and the self-confidence to unflinchingly chart personal experiences veering from joy to despair. Spanning a spectrum of emotions, it’s a record that lives up to its title by the simple virtue of celebrating the high moments in life, to finding shared catharsis in facing the lows. Sonically it matches those moods, from heavyweight summer pop through to darker, moodier atmospherics.
‘Good For The Soul’ is available to pre-order from Bandcamp. It is available on transparent effect purple and turquoise colour-mix vinyl as well as CD, while an album bundle also features a new t-shirt design. All orders include a free badge and a branded guitar pick.
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