Begonia announces second album with lead single "Right Here"

"Right Here" is Begonia's first release since January's "It's Too Quiet", and arrives with a Eric Peterson-directed video.

Begonia says of the new cut, ""Right Here" is a love song for all my friends. We started writing it in December 2019 about how I was on tour all the time: always feeling like I was missing my friends' milestones, parties, birthdays etc. I love what I do, but the sacrifice is that you're not really someone who can like… BE THERE physically for a lot of important (and unimportant) things back home."

"We never fully finished the song that December, but then we picked it up again during pandemic lockdowns and it started to take on a whole new meaning," Begonia adds. "At that time, it felt like everyone was missing everything/everyone because we had to stay apart. Another way this song could be interpreted (that I didn't originally intend) is that I’m haunting all my best friends when they go out without me. Maybe that's creepy but also… tender? It's meant to be tender, haha."

The track will appear on Begonia's second album Powder Blue, which will follow her Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2019 debut Fear.

"Powder Blue is more of an emotion," Begonia explains. "It makes me think of my baby blanket, the colour of the virgin mary’s shawl at the church Christmas play, the airiness of clouds on a summer day, chlorine filled water in a hotel pool, Elvis in the ‘70s wearing an ill-fitting jumpsuit, the wallpaper in my room growing up, the collection of faded denim jackets in my basement. The name of this album needed to be something that encompasses all of the feelings that these songs give me when they are put together."

Tracklist:

1. Chasing Every Sunrise
2. Heaven
3. Married By Elvis
4. Right Here
5. I’m Not Dying
6. Marigold
7. Butterfly
8. Cold Night
9. Crying
10. Bleeding Heart
11. The Only One
12. NYE2013