freya ridings Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/freya-ridings/ Focusing on the best new music made by female-identifying and non-binary artists. Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:36:58 +0000 en hourly 1 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-SMM-Logo-Black-1-32x32.png freya ridings Archives - She Makes Music https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/tag/freya-ridings/ 32 32 Freya Ridings returns with stripped back piano ballad ‘Perfect’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/new-music/freya-ridings-returns-with-stripped-back-piano-ballad-perfect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freya-ridings-returns-with-stripped-back-piano-ballad-perfect Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=4926 Freya Ridings recently returned to the upper reaches of the singles charts with ‘Weekends’. Now Freya again ramps up the anticipation ahead of the April 28 release of her second album Blood Orange by sharing the new song ‘Perfect’. Coming from the most intimate side of Freya’s sonic spectrum, ‘Perfect’ is a stripped back piano

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]]> Freya Ridings recently returned to the upper reaches of the singles charts with ‘Weekends’. Now Freya again ramps up the anticipation ahead of the April 28 release of her second album Blood Orange by sharing the new song ‘Perfect’.

Coming from the most intimate side of Freya’s sonic spectrum, ‘Perfect’ is a stripped back piano ballad which unmasks her vulnerabilities before realising that she has an inner strength which overpowers her personally preconceived imperfections. Just as the lyrics detail Freya moving into a better headspace, the song reaches a transformative conclusion as her swirling vocal harmonies elevate the power of the tracks final, rousing chorus.

Talking on the track Freya says: “This song is about feeling more insecure than you let on and in a lovely freeing way, maybe no one cares, and that’s ok.”

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]]> Freya Ridings is back with the announcement of her sophomore album Blood Orange and new single/video ‘Weekends’ https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/news/freya-ridings-is-back-with-the-announcement-of-her-sophomore-album-blood-orange-and-new-single-video-weekends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freya-ridings-is-back-with-the-announcement-of-her-sophomore-album-blood-orange-and-new-single-video-weekends Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://shemakesmusic.co.uk/?p=3721 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

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]]> 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:

  1. Blood Orange
  2. Bite Me
  3. Weekends
  4. Face In The Crowd
  5. Perfect
  6. Dancing In A Hurricane
  7. Happier Alone
  8. Wither On The Vine
  9. Bitter
  10. Someone New
  11. Last Day That You Loved Me
  12. Wolves
  13. Can I Jump?
  14. I Feel Love
Photo credit: Josh Shiner

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