Listen: Jay Brown - "Diamond"
Northampton singer-songwriter Jay Brown has bounded into our lives today with a new single called "Diamond".
Brown explains the that the track is about "finding out who you are, realising that its OK to make mistakes. To be excited about the moment, and the possibilities of what you may become. No matter what your past may be. Breaking through fear and battling the pain to move forward. Trusting in your instincts, keeping your inner child and imagination. Loving yourself which in turn will allow others to love you back."
It's a sprawling folk landscape that Brown paints with "Diamond", using a melodic guitar ostinato to underpin her wilder bucolic-blues excavations. Ben Howard's dark new LP I Forgot Where We Were seems like a similar soul. It's a far cry from her regional football/screamy emo beginnings, but it's dazzling nonetheless.
Listen below.
"Diamond" is out 15 December via Turn First Records.
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