Bridie’s ascent has been a spectacular one. Her 2015 debut album received critical acclaim, her music has been described as “a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking” by The Guardian. At the age of 18, she became one of the youngest ever nominees for the Mercury Prize and won the Choice Music Prize for Album Of The Year.
Juggling all of that with growing up gay in a small town, trying to establish a sense of identity has really inspired her latest work. Bridie tells me that this album was “born out of a year of depression and an identity crisis” that started when she came back to Derry after touring with her first album, Before We Forgot How to Dream.