Self Esteem announces new album ‘A Complicated Woman’ and shares lead single
The singer's third album arrives on April 25 and features collabs with Nadine Shah and Moonchild Sanelly
By Nick Reilly
Self Esteem has announced her third album, A Complicated Woman, and offered the first glimpse of it with the lead single ‘Focus Is Power’.
The latest record from Rebecca Lucy Taylor arrives on April 25 via Polydor, while the lead single sees her employ a choir to hammer home an important message about self-confidence.
“You see, it wasn’t up to me but now it could be / But now I see it clear with every passing of each year / I deserve to be here…” Taylor sings on her latest song.
Those themes run deep into the album, with a press release stating that the record exposes “the feelings women are required to labour under – but set on a larger, brighter landscape that is nothing short of exhilarating”.
It also features a “jubilant choir constructed of dozens and dozens of mostly female voices,” which manifests in the form of eclectic collaborators including Nadine Shah, Moonchild Sanelly and Sue Tompkins from Life Without Buildings. Others present include the drag queen Meatball and Coronation Street actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
Check out the track-list in full below.
‘A Complicated Woman’ tracklist is:
1. ‘I Do and I Don’t Care’
2. ‘Focus Is Power’
3. ‘Mother’
4. ‘The Curse’
5. ‘Logic, Bitch! (ft. Sue Tompkins)’
6. ‘Cheers To Me’
7. ‘If Not Now, It’s Soon’
8. ‘In Plain Sight ft Moonchild Sanelly’
9. ‘Lies (ft. Nadine Shah)’
10. ’69’
11. ‘What Now’
12. ‘The Deep Blue Okay’
Later this year, Self Esteem will also headline End Of The Road Festival.