By Tyler Ody
FREYA RIDINGS NEW ALBUM ‘BLOOD ORANGE’ IS OUT NOW - LISTEN HERE
FEATURING THE NEW SINGLE ‘I FEEL LOVE’ - WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE
WATCH THE SONG ‘BLOOD ORANGE’ PERFORMED LIVE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE HERE
Freya Ridings’ year to date has seen her establish the ideal platform to launch the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her #3, Gold-certified and BRIT-nominated debut album. Her first single of 2023, ‘Weekends’, proved to be one of her biggest hits to date as it earned a flurry of airplay (including Tune of the Week at Radio 1 and a playlist at Radio 2) as it was propelled into the Top 40 of the Official Charts. Subsequent tracks ‘Face In The Crowd’, ‘Can I Jump?’ and ‘Perfect’ continued to win new fans and reconnect with existing ones, and her profile was further boosted by announcing upcoming live plans including The Coronation Concert, Glastonbury and her own autumn headline tour.
Now the day is finally upon as Freya releases her second album ‘Blood Orange’. The album emerges alongside its new single ‘I Feel Love’ and she also shares a performance video of the album’s title track, the latest in a series of visuals which were filmed live at Alexandra Palace.
Freya says, “The thing I really wanted to do with this album was to say the things I really struggled to say. Pick the things I actually, physically couldn’t say to people, and write about them, and sing about them. That was the truth with ‘Blood Orange’: to scare myself with how honest these songs could be.”
One listen to the album reveals just how much Freya was willing to open her heart as she crafted its fourteen songs. It’s effectively an album of two halves: 18 months of Freya’s lost in the depths of heartbreak and loneliness, and then another 18 months in which she emerges happier than ever before. The moods are both bitter and sweet, the songs spanning from reflective and intimate to joyous and inclusive, and the transition that she grows through casts a powerfully uplifting spell upon the listener.
The ‘Blood Orange’ story comes to a cathartic, feelgood conclusion with the disco-leaning pop of Freya’s new single ‘I Feel Love’. After the highs and lows that preceded it, Freya celebrates with pure, unadulterated joy as she sings, “I feel love, right here, right now, so clear.”
In addition to its digital release, ‘Blood Orange’ is now available HERE on a range of physical formats, including signed CDs, signed black and signed blood orange vinyl. Album bundles also include an exclusive bonus ‘Live From Sleeper Sounds’ CD EP.
Freya wastes no time in taking ‘Blood Orange’ on the road, beginning tonight with the first of four intimate out-store shows. Tonight’s Kingston show is sold-out, but very limited tickets are available for the others HERE. Summer live highlights include The Coronation Concert and Glastonbury before she begins her ‘Blood Orange’ UK and Ireland headline tour in September, which concludes with a 5000-capacity show at London’s Eventim Apollo. Tickets for the headline tour are available HERE. Her upcoming UK dates are below:
APRIL
28th - Kingston, Pryzm (hosted by Banquet Records)
30th - Coventry, Empire (hosted by hmv)
MAY
1st - Manchester, Club Academy (hosted by Crash Records)
2nd - Portsmouth, New Theatre Royal (hosted by Pie & Vinyl)
7th - Windsor Castle, The Coronation Concert
14th - Tunes in the Dunes
JUNE
21st-25th - Glastonbury
AUGUST
6th – Hideaway Festival
19th - Hardwick Festival
25th – The Big Feastival
SEPTEMBER - ‘BLOOD ORANGE’ TOUR
17th - Belfast, Ulster Hall
18th - Dublin, 3Olympia
21st - Limerick, Big Top
OCTOBER - ‘BLOOD ORANGE’ TOUR
1st - Newcastle, NX
3rd - Glasgow, O2 Academy
4th - Manchester, Albert Hall
5th - Leeds, O2 Academy
7th - Norwich, UEA
8th - Nottingham, Rock City
10th - Birmingham, O2 Institute
12th - Cardiff, Great Hall
13th - London, Eventim Apollo
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