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CMU Approved
Approved: Violet Skies
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 May 2017
Violet Skies has been previewing songs from her new EP, ‘This Was Us’, at live shows in recent months, ahead of the seven-track record’s release this Friday. This new material seems to be a real turning point in her songwriting, inspired by the end of a relationship. A more cohesive and confident sound across the release should get her yet another step along towards the sustained music career she deserves.
“I’ve been waiting a long time to put these songs out”, she says. “The first one was written January 2016 in my living room in Soho, London. The last song I wrote in October in Berlin, about Soho, just as I was finishing the EP. That night, the story came full circle, into focus, whilst everything else had days before fallen apart”.
“These seven songs together make a body of work I am so proud of, and they truthfully, painfully but lovingly represent ‘Us'”, she continues, referencing the couple she was once part of. “The beginning of the end, the end and the mess in between. Just because something has ended, doesn’t mean it was all terrible. It’s just over. I think before as a songwriter I’ve told my stories in metaphors, I was scared of being honest, but when something ends what else can you be?”
As well as checking out the EP in full later this week, you can catch Violet Skies live at The Monarch in London on 1 Jun. And here, you can listen to the EP’s opening track, ‘Island’:
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