London-based, Wrexham-raised artist and producer Art School Girlfriend has announced her third studio album, Lean In. The follow-up to 2023’s Soft Landing is due for release on March 11 via Fiction Records. Check out the new single ‘The Peaks’, which follows September’s ‘L.Y.A.T.T.’, below.
Accordinh to Polly Mackey, ‘The Peaks’ explores the tensions of “desperately wanting to stay alive for the people you love.” She added: “During the making of this album, there was a period of time when everything around me felt fragile — the things worth living for came into focus with a kind of hyperreal clarity. It’s a beautiful but health anxiety-inducing thing to realise: how lucky we are to be here. The lyrics are desperate and widescreen: “I want to give you the peaks, don’t slip, hold me.” The production and arrangement are designed to overwhelm, with peaks and troughs, offering moments of deep calm amidst the waves of relentless beats and stuttering synths.”
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Lean In Tracklist:
1. Doing Laps
2. L.Y.A.T.T.
3. The Field
4. Down The Line
5. Almost Transparent
6. Save Something
7. The Peaks
8. Hope More, Hopeless
9. Lines
10. Framer
