- 2024-07-31
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MUSIC
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Paige Bea Releases New EP “Flutters”
London-based singer-songwriter Paige Bea released her new EP “Flutters” on July 31, 2024.
It is her first project in two years since the 2022 EP “Goodbye, Then!”.
The EP comprises a 3-track and was completed in Berlin with producer Gabriel Gifford, with its the sonic landscape inspired as much by the city's electronic scene as it is guided by Paige Bea's distinctive vocal flourishes.
All songs were written by Paige Reynolds and Gabriel Gifford.
Paige Bea said of the EP, “Written and produced with the crazy talent that is Gabriel Gifford over Zoom calls and Berlin trips and mastered by Cicely Balston I once again got to work with the cream of the cream - not to mention this INSANE COVER ART once again. The wickedly talented 3D artist Chloe Karnezi has next level vision and made me this dripping work of beauty to conclude a stunning triptych of images I will most likely treasure for my entire life??!”- Paige Bea explained track-by-track for the EP.
“Floods”
“I wrote 'Floods' to try to mimic that strange feeling of suddenly getting the love you wanted for so long but simultaneously being flooded with doubts. Is the person actually who you want? Is something missing? Is the sex actually any good? Sonically I wanted it to soar and roll along like a stream, packed with floaty, watery synth lines and ethereal vocals that go from high and soaring to whispered, to evoke and reflect all the mixed emotions. I wanted to create the perfect love child of Caroline Polachek, Bjork and Imogen Heap.” -
“Worth It”
“The lyrics for Worth It came shortly after a date I'd just been on. I was already just so anxious about when I was going to get the text back and how much longer we were going to have to do this silly dance before we just gave in to falling in love and seeing what happens. It felt like we were both coming into the start of it with a lot of trepidation given past relationships we'd been in, and we were trying to be adults by taking it slow, but it also felt like that was sucking the fun, spontaneous joy of starting something new out of it?
I was also thinking about expectations of women in relationships, the peacemaker, the homemaker, the PA, the mother (I'm not here to convince and coerce / Make things nice then give birth / I'm a difficult person) and I wanted to make a statement that I probably won't fit into the idea of who you think I am and I want to make that clear, but I'm also up for just leaning into this new feeling and taking a leap of faith if you are?
I think our generation has this tendency to think that because they are grown and therapised, it means we can micro-manage all our relationships and behaviours and I'm far too impulsive for that. I'm much more about throwing myself in the deep-end and seeing where it takes me.”
“Flutters”
“The song all started out in an online session in July 2022, I was in the attic of my family home on the outskirts of London in the middle of the most intensive heatwave London had ever seen, nursing the worst break-up I had ever had. Gabe and I had these sessions booked in for weeks and despite the fact I'd only been dumped about 3 days before, I was determined to not make some fleeting relationship impact my music. The problem was, everything was so raw, so I tried to write what became Flutters but the lyrics felt too intense and we called it a day. We didn't reopen the project until almost a year later when I was in Gabe's bedroom studio in Berlin - and we realised that the very last word of the tormented frustrated first verse was one of the hookiest hooks we'd ever heard! From there, the song took on a whole new life, so much so that we first split the two parts into different tracks, but then - despite the fact short songs stream best - decided to stitch them back together, the hook felt even more satisfying after a long, morose build-up.”
Photo by Amy Lauffer Neff - source : Apple Music
