Spotlight!: Fiona-Lee

Navigating that transitional period from your teenage years into adulthood comes with a lot of upheaval and uncertainty. There’s a million and one stupid mistakes we’d love to take back, painful encounters we long to forget, inner voices we’d love to silence, and moments where we felt completely lost and out of our depth. All this metamorphosis comes at a time in our lives when our emotions burn at their brightest. Loving deeper, grieving harder, our anxiety at its most paralyzing; all of it swirling around at once. With it being such a pivotal time in shaping who we are as people, emotions which are felt this fiercely deserve to be expressed with the same level of passion. All across her debut EP, Yorkshire singer/songwriter Fiona-Lee finds strength in vulnerability. The candour of her lyricism confronting insecurities out in the open to rob them of their power, her voice resonating with meaning across moments of tenderness, ferocity and everything inbetween. Continue reading

Top Tracks: Fiona-Lee – Nothing Compares To Nineteen

It’s said that everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about – and all too often, it remains unknown. We struggle to find the words to describe what we’re feeling, are afraid to risk letting our defences down in the hope of finding a sympathetic ear, and wonder if anyone will truly understand the pain we’re feeling. Drawing a line between a conversation with her father about how “boys didn’t talk about feelings“, and the loss of a dear friend who took his own life, Fiona-Lee resolves to be open with her own struggles with anxiety and depression on her new single ‘Nothing Compares To Nineteen’. The track feels like a much needed and welcome push towards asking for help when you need it, rather than suffering in silence. Fiona’s frank and insightful lyricism manages to walk the line between being as intimate and confessional as a diary entry, while at the same time as real and down-to-earth as a conversation with a friend. All that is paired with emphatic drums and light breezy guitar work that spirals ever faster, ensuring her battles ring out loud and clear, and building more of that anthemic Sam Fender-esque sound that we’ve come to know and love.