London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe today releases her debut album 'Move On With The Year' via Moshi Moshi Records. With the album release comes the announcement of a new autumn headline tour, with new dates in Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Bristol. To mark the album's release, Alice plays a stripped back in-store set at Rough Trade Denmark Street on 11th February, before headline shows in Huddersfield, Sheffield, Sidney and Sunderland later this month - and two sold-out London shows on 3rd and 4th March.
Over the past year, Alice Costelloe has emerged as one of the UK’s most quietly commanding new songwriters. With endorsements from BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq, Craig Charles, Lauren Laverne, Nick Grimshaw, Nemone and Iggy Pop plus sustained praise from press tastemakers including The Guardian ("Riveting"), MOJO Magazine ("Moving solo debut of dark, surreal art-pop"), Loud And Quiet ("Remarkable"), DIY ("Fizzing with nostalgic warmth"), Wonderland, NME, CLASH, Dork, The Line of Best Fit and many more. Her growing profile has been mirrored on the road, with extensive UK and European touring that has seen her support Gengahr and Lael Neale on dates across the UK as well as joining Future Islands in Europe, alongside sold-out London headline shows of her own and appearances at key tastemaker festivals such as The Great Escape and Live At Leeds.
Rooted in the long shadow of her estranged father’s addiction, debut album 'Move On With The Year' captures the quiet work of unlearning and repair. Produced by Mike Lindsay (one half of LUMP with Laura Marling) in his Margate studio, the album is a fragile, fearless act of creative detangling - art-pop that listens closely to the noise left by parental addiction and emotional absence, then patiently rebuilds something strange and beautifully self-assured.
Moving beyond the cool precision of her indie-rock roots fronting Big Deal, she and Lindsay shaped a world of mellotron drones, fluttering flutes, warped synths and stumbling pianos, with sonic references sitting somewhere between Julia Jacklin, Cate Le Bon, Weyes Blood, Julia Holter, Joni Mitchell and Andy Shauf.
'Move On With The Year' is, in Alice’s own words, “an emotional catharsis” - a record written as summer turned to autumn, where lilting melodies deliver devastation in the details. These songs trace the slow, necessary work of pulling focus on a childhood lived in the shadow of addiction, and the hard-to-heal heartbreak that only a parent can imprint. Costelloe’s economical lines cut to the quick, yet they’re delivered without recrimination; there is no closure offered here, only a stoic, steady gaze. Amid brooding atmospherics and gentle, unguarded brightness, 'Move On With The Year' introduces an artist coming into her power – a work imbued with poise, clarity and self-possession.
Alice Costelloe's debut album 'Move On With The Year' is out now, released 6th February via Moshi Moshi Records. Alice tours the album with select dates across the UK in February, March and October.
LIVE DATES (tickets)
- 11 February - London, Rough Trade Denmark Street (In-store & Signing)
- 25 February - Huddersfield, AMPED
- 26 February - Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda
- 27 February - Sunderland, The Ship Isis
- 03 March - London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
- 04 March - London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
- 15 May - Brighton, The Great Escape Festival
- 23 May - Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
- 24 May - Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival
- 03 September - Dorset, End of the Road Festival
- 08 October - Manchester, YES Basement
- 09 October - Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete's
- 10 October - Leeds, Headrow House
- 15 October - London, The Lexington
- 16 October - Bristol, Exchange Basement