Sophie Jamieson shares new single/video, "How do you want to be loved?", from her album, I still want to share, out 17 January 2025 via Bella Union.
London-based songwriter Sophie Jamieson releases the new single “How do you want to be loved?”, the third track from her highly anticipated second album, I still want to share, out 17 January 2025 via Bella Union.
“How do you want to be loved?” is one of the album’s most spirited instrumental backdrops, all bubbling synths and fidgety percussion, that set a colourful atmosphere for the record’s emotional peak. A deep battle of trying to open up the heart, the song documents a draining attempt to see the layers in those we love the most, when all we are able to summon is confusion and hurt.
Speaking of the new single, Sophie said:
“I wrote this song after a particularly upsetting fight with a close family member. I wanted to write a song that would help me forgive and understand them - to write my way into being able to love them in the way I felt I should. But I couldn’t keep my anger and frustration out of the song.
It kept bubbling through my attempts to embrace their humanity and complexity. In the end, the song seemed to become a battle between the wounded children in both of us.
Their voice and pain came through somehow in a way that broke my heart. The song had to hold the very depths of my hurt, and the depths of theirs all in one.”
“How do you want to be loved?” follows the release of the album’s first two singles, “I don’t know what to save”, a heartfelt yearn for release through Sophie’s endlessly emotive lyricism, building toward an exhilarating peak as it tumbles forwards, and “Camera”, a song birthed out of themes of unanchored love and heartbreak.
Sophie Jamieson will play a run of instores across the UK to tie in with the album release in January, with dates at London’s Rough Trade West as well as in Gosport, Oxford, Leeds, and Brighton. Sophie will then follow up with a UK headline tour in February, including a London show at The Lexington on 12 February 2025.
I still want to share
out 17 January 2025 via Bella Union
pre-order/ pre-save HERE
Instores:
January 15th - London - Rough Trade West
January 21st - Gosport - Slice of Vinyl
January 22nd - Oxford - Truck
January 23rd - Leeds - Jumbo Records
January 25th - Brighton - Bella Union Record Shop
Live dates:
Feb 7th - Manchester - Low Four
Feb 8th - Belfast - The Duncairn
Feb 11th - Brighton - Folklore Rooms
Feb 12th - London - The Lexington
Feb 16th - Nottingham - Peggy's Skylight
Feb 20th - Frome - HydeAway
tickets available here.