London-based songwriter Sophie Jamieson will release her highly anticipated second album I still want to share on January 17, 2025 via Bella Union. Already earning acclaim spanning The Needle Drop, Guitar Girl Magazine, Northern Transmissions, The Line Of Best Fit and more, the album was co-produced in London by Sophie Jamieson with the Grammy Award-winning Guy Massey (Spiritualized, Manic Street Preachers, The Beatles’ back-catalogue remastering). The new collection is a deeply personal reflection on the cyclical nature of loving and losing, the anxiety we cannot keep out of our relationships, and the perpetual longing for belonging that drives us to keep trying, and failing, to find home in other people. Today, brooding album opener “Camera” is revealed, a stunner which gently shifts into focus as guitars build, the drumbeat shuffles in and Sophie’s layered vocals bring a sense of dramatic unraveling, eventually swelling to a noisy, coruscating finale.
Sophie shares, “I wrote this song when my heart was broken and I was trying to hold everything when it didn’t want to be held. I wanted to be able to draw an outline around the pieces, fit them into a frame. Something in me knew that I’d find some peace if I just let things stay blurry, but everything in me wanted to find some focus. This song is the yearning, wrenching of trying to define a love that was less simple, more layered and less graspable than I could accept.”
If Sophie’s debut LP Choosing explored the self-destructive urge that swells from running away from one’s whole self, I still want to share muscles through, song by song, doing its best to face it. It lifts the lid on the roots of how we love and digs in even deeper, leaning into our deficiencies but doing so from a stronger, healthier place that is much less afraid of the pain that inevitably comes with feeling everything.
I still want to share also feels more exploratory, playful, and detailed with a richer palette. All the raw emotion of Sophie’s songwriting and vocal delivery is joined by some new characters: twinkly, toy-like omnichord, brooding layers of harmonium and sub-bass, as well as rich string arrangements – courtesy of Josephine Stephenson (Daughter, Ex:Re, Lisa Hannigan) – that weave a yearning connection through the beating heart of the record. “There’s a lot of warm autumnal colors, and then more glittery, dark, starry skies. Something about it all has really come together to illustrate some things that I didn’t know I needed to articulate in this way”, Sophie explains.
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