Mary Epworth has shared another taste of her brilliant new record Elytral, with new single ‘Surpise Yourself’ streaming now.
You can listen to the track above, a more incisive turn than the blissful, spacious atmospherics of lead single ‘Me, Swimming’, replete with pumps of rhythmic synth.
Elytral will be released on 1 September via Sunday Best, while Epworth has also announced a headline show at London’s Oslo on 18 October.
"The making of Elytral started with what was probably writer’s block," Epworth says. "I felt stymied by my own expectations that what I had to write had to be important, life changing, or the greatest thing anyone would ever hear. I was stuck and felt powerless to create any new songs.
"Eventually I started to tinker with the bits of music that had been popping into my head, just treating it as play. I became out of my depth creatively, playing instruments I don’t usually play, relying less on other people to flesh things out and tell me that they made sense. I felt totally free as to where the song went. So this is a song about that process of freeing yourself from your own self-imposed limitations."
