Wanthanee shares details of her debut album, AB show and new single

Wanthanee today shares her new single ‘Cold Summers’, from her upcoming self-titled debut album out 22 October 2021. 'Cold Summers' is the next sliver of personal Wanthanee-history, after previous singles ‘Mid Day Dream’, ‘Taipei’ and ‘Soon’. With this single, she also announces her concert at Ancienne Belgique on 9 November 2021, where she will present her debut album.

The song tells the story of a long-distance relationship between her and a guy she met during a cold summer as a teenager in her seaside hometown. After some time, it became clear that not only the summer but also the relationship was cold. It left her feeling empty and the physical distance turned into mental distance. As the relationship went sour, she wrote this song as a remedy against the emptiness she was confronted with, a consolation against the loneliness. In the song, she speaks directly to the boy, saying she won’t give in to the cold feelings he brings and that this song marks the only connection as well as the distance between them.

At the age of 4, Wanthanee started singing the songs from Disney's movie Snowwhite. When a friend of the family heard this, he told her grandmother that it would be a shame if she didn't do anything with music. Inspired by him, she chose the violin to be her very first instrument. Years later and classically trained in violin, says she knows too little about the contemporary music scene and once started playing guitar because her roommates could not appreciate the sound of a violin.

Later, against all her expectations, she won Studio Brussels' “De Nieuwe Lichting” in 2016, with the song ‘Only Shadows Remain’ and the public was introduced to 'The Nightingale of De Panne' or 'The London Grammar of the Lowlands’, both of which were mentioned by the press at random.

Convinced that singing her songs for an audience was something she loved doing, Wanthanee decided to take a leap in the dark and persued the ambition to share her music with others. With her acoustic guitar and impressive voice, she silences and charmes hordes of people at just about every venue in Flanders and festivals like Pukkelpop, Leffingeleuren, Crammerock and Werchter Parklife (support Tourist LeMC), Leuven Air (support Milow). She also supported acts for George Ezra, Starsailor and Amongster. Her music has also been well received internationally; Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands are fans. But she has also been able to play nice performances in America, South Korea, and Taiwan.

On 22 October we expect the long-awaited debut album of Wanthanee. It’s a gem that confirms Wanthanee more than ever as... Herself. Her wide, warm voice still reaches out like a comforting shoulder while the rich arrangements draw the listener into her thoughts, her vision, her universe more than ever. It is a nice place to be, take it from us.