Freya Ridings Announces New Album Mother Of Pearl Out May 29th On BMG
Announces New Album Mother Of Pearl
Out May 29th On BMG
Releases Haunting Single ‘I Have Always Loved You’
Listen HERE // Watch The Video HERE
After teasing the record with the evocative ‘Wild Horse’ earlier this year and 2025’s cutting single ‘Wicker Woman,’ one of the UK’s most impressive vocal talents Freya Ridings has announced the release of her stunning new album Mother Of Pearl, which will come May 29th on BMG. Alongside the announcement comes new single ‘I Have Always Loved You’. The track comes alongside a captivating video directed by Nic Minns (Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran, Anne-Marie) and shot at Asylum Chapel. Listen to the single HERE & watch the video HERE.
Opening with the empowering and assured banger ‘Euphoria,’ Mother Of Pearl is 11 tracks of flawless beauty. Reinventing herself, while maintaining the voice that has become so recognisable, there’s a defiance and a fire to Freya Ridings’ new era. It’s a strength borne from her journey, forging a path through a patriarchal industry that all-too-often tried to mould her into what they wanted her to be and not what she was aspiring to.
Leaving her hometown of London, Ridings headed to LA for a year to try and reignite her creative light. She surrounded herself with people who truly loved their craft, going into sessions with the likes of Jenn Decilvio (Miley Cyrus, Hozier), Fraser T Smith (Adele, Dave), Adam Yaron (Alex Warren), Toby Gad (John Legend, Beyoncé), Sam de Jong (Gracie Abrams): writers and producers that wanted to hear what she had to say and to elevate it.
“You could feel the electricity and the positivity that they have, and that really recharged me,” she says. “Even just being around them was a joy.” Slowly, the backbone of her new music began to make itself clear: a third act that was not just about reclaiming her own narrative, but celebrating the act of reclamation and return in itself.
“My first album had a colour palette of red and black, for fire and pain. The second album was orange and green – earthy and organic. But this new music evokes water, the big blue sea, with all the depth and ancient power of an ocean: it’s grief and it’s ancestry, the known and the unknown,” Freya says of the album. “There’s a lot of rebellion and female rage that I wasn’t able to express before. I’m rebuilding myself to who I actually know I am instead of what people tried to force me to be.”
The album’s third cut and fan favourite, Freya has also released her emotional new single ‘I Have Always Loved You.’ Written with her friend and songwriter Toby Gadd (John Legend, Beyoncé, Demi Lovato), the track was written at Toby’s studio in LA on Valentine’s Day. “This song is the very (almost uncomfortably true) love story that I never thought I’d ever write down, let alone sing out loud,” Freya says of the track. “Toby asked me, “what’s been the greatest love story of your life?” I took a moment and paused, as it had been anything but smooth sailing and something that felt incredibly private to share, but almost cosmically and magically timed it came out like a voicemail message and is a song that felt like a spell being cast.” Listen to ‘I Have Always Loved You’ HERE.
One of the UK’s finest talents since she broke through with her multi-platinum selling single ‘Lost Without You,’ Freya has had a remarkable career to date. Her self-titled debut album was a BRIT-nominated, Gold-certified triumph, achieving over 1 billion streams and earning 47 Gold and Platinum certifications worldwide. ‘Lost Without You’ also saw Freya become the first female artist to both write and perform a solo Top 10 hit in the UK.
Going into her third album Freya Ridings is not the same artist she was before. She’s had to reach down into the depths and find reserves that she didn’t know she had, and in doing so, she’s tapped into a rich seam of anger and wisdom and womanhood that feels as timely now as it ever was. As she says, “Getting to create, sing and play these songs and have them exist in the real world, that feels like winning to me.”
