British gem Freya Ridings makes an epic return to prominence with the release of her brand new single ‘Weekends’ – and also announces the May 5 release of her eagerly anticipated second album Blood Orange.
Taking shape as the album’s first single, ‘Weekends’ is a dancefloor-ready, string-laden singalong with a touch of Nile Rodgers-style glitterball disco energy to it. But Freya’s soaring, velveteen vocal doesn’t hold back when exposing the loneliness that engulfed her early in 2020 as she sings, “I don’t really have friends, I don’t go out at weekends, I don’t have a lover left to hold.”
It’s a song which came from one very specific moment in Freya’s life. As she recalls, “There was a breakup when I got given my first platinum disc for ‘Lost Without You’. I had no one to call and I was sat alone in a bar in King’s Cross. I’d chosen to put the energy into my career, and you miss so many birthdays, people just stop inviting you because they don’t think you’re around. It looks as though I had thousands of people around me, but actually I was the most alone I’ve ever been. So that song felt like me being scarily honest with myself, which was hard.”
Blood Orange:
- Blood Orange
- Bite Me
- Weekends
- Face In The Crowd
- Perfect
- Dancing In A Hurricane
- Happier Alone
- Wither On The Vine
- Bitter
- Someone New
- Last Day That You Loved Me
- Wolves
- Can I Jump?
- I Feel Love
