After continuing the enormous support for her forthcoming studio album ‘Already Always’ with the recent lead single ‘All You Can Do’, alongside the BBC 6Music playlisted ‘Co-op’ and ‘Time Comes In Roses’, emerging singer and songwriter Bess Atwell has now returned to share a mesmerising live performance of her most recent offering.
Stripping back the dense and robust original to its humbled acoustic roots, this new rendition of ‘All You Can Do’ allows us to experience a snapshot of her powerful aesthetic in its simplest and rawest form. Using little more than an acoustic guitar and her own heartfelt voice, she sweeps and swoons her way through this performance to deliver a bold and intimate performance throughout.
Her new collection looks to bring together the songs and aesthetics she has been channelling for some time. While on the surface some would see it as a break-up record, the album itself is more about the deeper relationships that many of us experience throughout our lives, and how brittle and disconnected they can become over time.
A release that focuses on loss, love, life, and death, Bess Atwell has taken the opportunity behind this album to create something that not only reflects who she is upon us, but also allows us to see ourselves in her.
‘Already Always’ Album Tracklist:1. Co-op2. All You Can Do3. Silver Fir4. Dolly5. Love Is Not Enough6. How Do You Leave7. Time Comes in Roses8. Red Light Heaven9. Olivia, in A Separate Bed10. NobodyTo support the new album, Bess Atwell has also announced a string of festival and UK tour dates for later in the year including a 15-date UK headline tour in November and December.
Spring / Summer 202125th July – Womad Festival12th Aug – 110 Above Festival11th Sept – Down at the Abbey Festival
UK Tour dates15th Nov – Liverpool, Leaf16th Nov – Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach18th Nov – Bristol, Exchange19th Nov – Leeds, Headrow House20th Nov – Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s21st Nov – Glasgow, Broadcast23rd Nov – Newcastle, The Cluny 225th Nov – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds V226th Nov – Manchester, Deaf Institute27th Nov – Nottingham, Bodega30th Nov – Cambridge, Junction 21st Dec – Oxford, The Jericho Tower2nd Dec – London, Oslo3rd Dec – Southampton, Heartbreakers4th Dec – Brighton, Patterns
There is comfort in the familiar. Yet it is precisely when we are most comfortable that we begin to ask questions. Artist Bess Atwell is full of questions: on life, death, love, loss… and how things that at first seem mundane become profound when looked at in a different light. On her sensational album, ‘Already, Always’, Atwell offers one of the most assured records by a British artist in years. Released via Lucy Rose’s Communion imprint Real Kind Records, it focuses heavily on Atwell’s own experiences yet has a universal appeal -demonstrated already by the support from the BBC’s 6music, and millions of streams of Atwell’s earlier, self released, singles. “What I really care about is people listening to this album and saying, ‘God, I feel like I know her,'” the Brighton-based artist explains. “I wanted to illustrate, not just the romance in relationships, but that bit that comes afterwards.”
‘Already Always’ is out September 24th through Real Kind Records.