Alice Costelloe returns with art-pop stunner 'If I Could Reach You', following Steve Lamacq premiere on BBC 6 Music

London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe today returns with new single 'If I Could Reach You' - out now via Moshi Moshi Records, as premiered by Steve Lamacq on his BBC 6 Music show last night. The new single marks Costelloe's first release since 2024’s acclaimed EP 'When It’s The Time'.

Produced once again by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage), 'If I Could Reach You' is set against a rich framework of gently warped electronics and fuzzy guitars - extending the sonic palette Costelloe and Lindsay began exploring on her 'When It’s The Time' EP - moving further away from her indie-rock origins into a more exploratory art-pop space.

The lyrics capture the aching tension of longing for someone you can’t quite reach - a love song in form, but directed at absence rather than romance, as Alice explains:

“The song came from that feeling of trying to connect with someone who was always just out of reach. I wanted the production to carry that distance too. Mike and I even layered in the sound of a New Zealand busy tone as a kind of sonic metaphor. It’s funny and devastating at the same time, which is how that longing often felt.

"I listened to Andy Shauf’s ‘Norm’ a lot last year and really connected to it. There’s a track about desperately wanting to hear someone’s voice, even if you're just talking about the most mundane things - how comforting even that can be when you love someone. Now I’m reading reviews of ‘Norm’, I’m just realising it’s essentially a concept record about a stalker, but I guess I felt I could relate to the feeling of not being able to stop thinking about someone that is unreachable for you. He said about Norm, “I wanted to make love songs that were disconnected from romanticising love,” and I think I was unknowingly doing something similar, I was writing love songs that were mourning the loss of a familial relationship."

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 and notable press tastemakers including DIY Magazine, Wonderland Magazine, CLASH Magazine, Dork Magazine, The New Cue, The Line of Best Fit for 2024's 'When It's The Time' EP.

New single 'If I Could Reach You' confirms Costelloe as one of the UK’s most compelling new voices: an artist dismantling inherited languages and reshaping them into fragile art-pop that lingers in the head long after the sound fades.

Alice Costelloe's new single 'If I Could Reach You' is out now on Moshi Moshi Records.

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