Another Sky are excited to release their new album Beach Day, out now on Fiction Records. The album was recorded in the band’s crypt studio in South London, produced by guitarist Jack Gilbert.
New single I Never Had Control was written after a walk to Nick Drake’s grave. Lead singer Catrin Vincent wrote it in the first lockdown, jobless and on benefits, ready to quit music. On the eve of her 27th birthday, she discovered Nick Drake, who died at 26. She picked up the guitar “just one more time” and learned one of his songs, Road, then realised his hometown was very near to hers. She visited his grave and laid down some lilies to thank him for the music. I Never Had Control is about overcoming self-flagellation, self-blame and the ego. It’s about the realisation that when things are beyond your control, you no longer have to live in fear. You can just live each day and accept what happens to you.
At this moment in time for Another Sky, there are maybe three certainties in this life: death, taxes, and rage. White-hot rage that takes you inwards, deeper into yourself, your fears, all the hidden truths you desperately tried to keep quiet while finding yourself.
With the band’s second album Beach Day, that feeling opens a doorway to the most confident, fully formed and forthright version of Another Sky so far. Frontwoman Catrin Vincent points out the relationship between anger and freedom on this record. “If you don’t move through anger, it’ll calcify into bitterness, and it’s not worth it,” she says, “but it’s about having the freedom to find and feel that anger. How can you move through something you don’t even know is there?”.
