Today artist and producer Austel (Annie Rew Shaw) returns with her soul-stirring new single ‘Hotel Room Window View’. The track is here ahead of her upcoming headline show this Friday at The Harrison in Kings Cross and a brand new album on the way in June.

Nostalgic and sun-soaked, ‘Hotel Room Window View’ is a delicate offering that gently builds and blossoms into something beautifully expansive. Originally inspired by a dream, the track is an opportunity to reflect and evoke introspection. Sharing more, Austel explained; “This song is based on a surreal dream. I was trapped in this place I thought I wanted to be – on the surface, it was beautiful, but underneath, the woodwork was rotten, the view not so great, the company even less so.

“I wrote it during the 2020 lockdown when I was back  in Devon – being in my childhood hometown resulted in revisiting lots of forgotten/buried memories, alongside distance from my London life and some of the chaotic relationships I’d been embroiled in. It weaves into memories from being a teenager, early experiences of intimacy that never sat quite right, a loss of innocence, and how echoingly heartbreaking that can be – even years later when you’ve gained some perspective on it all.”