Alice Costelloe releases 'Anywhere Else' - debut album 'Move On With The Year' out 6 Feb on Moshi Moshi

London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe has released new single 'Anywhere Else' - the latest preview of her highly anticipated debut album 'Move On With The Year', out 6th February 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records.

‘Anywhere Else’ was the first track Alice wrote for the album, emerging just after she returned from recording her 2024 EP 'When It's The Time' with Mike Lindsay. Still carrying the afterglow of those sessions, she brought a mellotron into her home setup and began shaping the smudged synth pulses, hushed recorder lines and loose, hand-played textures that would form the album’s core. The song opens with the quiet gut-punch of “Please don’t say it’s all for me / I would rather be anywhere else” - a line that became a kind of emotional north star for the body of work that followed.

The song became an early blueprint for the album, with its lilting melodies and brooding atmospherics leaning into instinct over intention. Opening the album, it traces the tension between the pull of obligation and the urge to flee - and the honesty that comes with finally naming those feelings.

On the release of her new single, Alice said:

"This song felt so easy and natural. All the recorder melodies were the first things I played, and it really felt like I was just writing whatever came to me without worrying about what was cool or what other people were doing. I decided I wanted the whole record to feel like that – to just take the path of least resistance at every turn, in sound and in subject."

Produced by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage) in his Margate studio, Alice Costelloe’s long-awaited debut solo album is a document of creative detangling and emotional repair; a fragile, fearless piece of art-pop that dismantles the noise of her past and rebuilds something startlingly intimate in its place.

Moving beyond the cool precision of her indie-rock roots, she and Lindsay shape a world of mellotron drones, fluttering flutes, warped synths and stumbling pianos – drawing influence from the work of Feist, Julia Jacklin, Cate Le Bon, and Andy Shauf.

'Move On With The Year' is, in Alice’s own words, “an emotional catharsis” - a record written as summer turned to autumn, where lilting melodies deliver devastation in the details. These This year has already seen Alice Costelloe tour the UK supporting Gengahr, as well as supporting Future Islands in Europe, following up on the glowing endorsements from BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq, Craig Charles, Lauren Laverne, Nick Grimshaw, Nemone, Iggy Pop) and notable press tastemakers including Loud And Quiet, DIY Magazine, Wonderland Magazine, CLASH Magazine, Dork Magazine, The New Cue, The Line of Best Fit and more.

Alice Costelloe's releases to date have already positioned her as one of the UK’s more compelling voices, yet with forthcoming debut album 'Move On With The Year', Costelloe steps fully into her own language with something strange and beautifully self-assured.

Alice Costelloe's debut album 'Move On With The Year' is out 6th February 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records. Alice tours the album with select dates across the UK in Jan/Feb/March 2026. New single 'Anywhere Else' is out now.

LIVE DATES

2026

• 07 January - London, Shacklewell Arms
• 11 February - London, Rough Trade Denmark Street
• 25 February - Huddersfield, AMPED
• 26 February - Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda
• 27 February - Sunderland, The Ship Isis
• 03 March - London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
• 04 March - London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
• 23 March - Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
• 24 March - Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival

Feb/March 2026 headline tour, two London dates already sold out - tickets for remaining dates on sale here

WATCH 'Anywhere Else' video: https://youtu.be/DiQNEzyLe68