Alex Amor reveals new single 'Aquamarine'

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(08 July) Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor today shares latest single 'Aquamarine' - a new taste of her forthcoming debut album Heavenly Bodies - out 21st August via New York independent label VERO Music. Alex Amor today also announces an intimate in-store and signing at Rough Trade Denmark Street on 26th August.

New single 'Aquamarine' began with an unlikely encounter in Los Angeles, where an oracle card reader told Amor she'd "find her answers near a body of water". That encounter led her to an impromptu recording session with Australian producer Matthew Neighbour (Role Model, Lord Huron) in his LA studio.

Built around burnished guitars, featherlight percussion and an easygoing Americana pulse filtered through modern indie-pop, 'Aquamarine' sees Amor look back on childhood summers along the windswept beaches of Scotland's west coast.

Speaking on the song, Alex said:

"I was in LA on a writing trip and an oracle card reader at my hotel told me I'd find my answers near a body of water. So I did what all completely sane and rational people do: I listened to a random guy I'd just met. I ended up cycling to Manhattan Beach, where the first lyrics to Aquamarine came to me. Right after I wrote the lyrics, Matthew Neighbour saw on Instagram that I was in LA, invited me to his studio, and we finished the song during the final days of my trip. Sometimes, you just have to do things before they start making sense.

"The lyric 'west coast air' has a double meaning. It refers to LA, but also to growing up and spending my summers on the west coast of Scotland - especially around the peninsula of Carradale Bay. Aquamarine is a love song, but also an ode to that summer feeling: salt in your hair, wanting summer to last forever. When I think of my happiest moments, where I felt true freedom and peace, it's on those Scottish beaches: a child running around wild, being dragged out of the sea blue from the cold, never wanting to leave the ocean."

'Aquamarine' arrives following recent singles 'Avalanche', 'Icarus', and 'Meet On The Moon' - along with appearances this year at Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape Festival, Footsteps Festival plus support dates with Liang Lawrence, Prima Queen and Good Neighbours.

On the song's video directed by Henry Croston, Amor added:

"We shot the music video for Aquamarine at Beachy Head - close to my new home in Brighton. It's a place that feels like the edge of the world. One of the music videos that changed my life was Cranes in the Sky by Solange. I remember watching it for the first time; blown away by its restraint, the carefully composed shots, storytelling through fashion, and how landscapes can become part of the narrative. Coming from a textile background, I’m drawn to texture, composition, and the use of negative space. Horizontal lines along white cliffs. Spiral motifs that repeat throughout nature, from shells on the shore to the curves in the rocks and patterns left in the sand."

Alex Amor's forthcoming debut album Heavenly Bodies weaves together celestial imagery, spirituality and the vast emotional terrain of human connection, all filtered through a distinctly Scottish songwriting sensibility. Exploring what she calls "love, loss and liminal spaces", the record is shaped by Amor's fascination with cosmic symbolism, drawing on meditation, rune reading and the philosophies of Swedish mystic Hilma af Klint.

Throughout Heavenly Bodies, Amor returns to the idea that our inner lives mirror larger universal rhythms - notably on opener 'As Above, So Below', before moving through the elegiac 'Meet On The Moon' and 'Roses', to the radiant 'Icarus' and expansive centrepiece 'Inside' - a six-minute meditation on family, addiction and Saturn return.

Largely written and recorded between London and Glasgow with Peter Brien (Kojaque, Kean Kavanagh), Baz Kaye (The Blessed Madonna, Obongjayar) and Karma Kid (Jessie Ware, Jalen Ngonda), Heavenly Bodies was then mixed by Matthew Neighbour (Role Model, Lord Huron) and mastered by Katie Tavini.

Heavenly Bodies signals the arrival of a bold and fully realised artistic voice - one unafraid to explore the space between earthly emotion and something far more infinite.

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To date Alex Amor has released three EPs: her debut ‘Love Language’ in 2021 and 'The Art Of Letting Go' in 2022 and 'Super Sonic' in 2023. Her music has garnered over 8 million streams and earned widespread support across radio and press: BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders, Sian Eleri), The Line of Best Fit, DIY Magazine, CLASH Magazine, Dork Magazine, Wonderland, Notion, 1883 Magazine, The Skinny, Ones To Watch, The Sunday Mail and The Scotsman.

Previously Alex has performed at festivals including TRNSMT, The Great Escape, Liverpool Sound City, Live at Leeds and Dot To Dot alongside extensive UK touring and dates with Good Neighbours, Liang Lawrence, Prima Queen, Gretta Ray, Swim Deep, VLURE, amongst others.

Alex Amor's debut album 'Heavenly Bodies' will be released 21st August via VERO Music. New single 'Aquamarine' is out now.

LIVE DATES (tickets)

26 August - London, Rough Trade Denmark Street (In-store)

'Heavenly Bodies' - album artwork tracklist

1. As Above, So Below

2. Seeing Angels

3. Meet On The Moon

4. Aqua Marine

5. Avalanche

6. This Must Be The End

7. Icarus

8. Still Your Girl

9. Sweet Loathing

10. Inside

11. Roses

12. Only The Beginning