Though she’s hugely looking forward to a packed festival season, she admits to being disappointed by yet another year of male-dominated line-ups. In February 2018, she announced the album's title, The Song Diaries, and pointed out that it would consist of re-recorded tracks spanning her career from theaudience to Familia's "Wild Forever", plus a new track. The 'Product' page will show the most up to date info we have with regards to the item and its release date, but this information is subject to change so check in with us if you have any questions. a podcast by The Staff Canteen, where she was interviewed by Aaron Middleton and The Staff Canteen's Cara Houchen. In September 2014, the Pretty Polly hosiery company announced that Ellis-Bextor was their latest "face and legs", and would be designing and modelling for them.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - HANA (2023) - SoftArchive Sophie Ellis-Bextor - HANA (2023) - SoftArchive

The album was released in January 2014 and peaked at number four on the UK Albums Chart and at number one on the UK Independent Albums Chart. Breaking the Circle” offers more of a balance between the two sides than the opening cut did, pitting its dramatic imagery and lovely vocal harmonies over urgent percussion and jaunty piano work; it certainly serves as a more appropriate thesis for HANA as a whole, as many of the other songs are variations on this sound.Trip the Light Fantastic, Ellis-Bextor's third album, was released in May 2007 and reached number seven in the UK. We've plotted a little course, and I feel like I've got a lot more bold with making my records and making them a little bit out there.

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Her Kitchen Disco workouts re-established her as a family-focussed pop queen, placing new emphasis on her catalogue and displaying Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s remarkable, completely distinctive voice. And the older I get, the more it moves me that I am given space [in this industry] because there’s so much out there. Not only that, but she also has a new record on the way: HANA is her first full-length studio album in six years.

Lights Out London' campaign, which asks Londoners to switch off their lights for one hour in a bid to save 750 MWh and send a message to the world on the importance of climate change. But I will 100% support whoever's doing it, and I would love to have a go at writing a Eurovision song. It was supported by the singles "Breaking the Circle", "Everything Is Sweet" and "Lost in the Sunshine". Meanwhile, laid-back early cut Tokyo offers a moment of respite that forms a centrepiece for the album, bringing together its themes and placing Sophie’s pure vocals front and centre. Oh I wasn’t supposed to come, but it happened that the fates, they had their fun,” she sings, following his imagined footsteps down brand new streets.

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I really would say that that song changed my life – not just because it gave me a lifeline back into what I wanted to do, but also because it introduced me to a whole different genre. Bittersweet" (co-written by Freemasons and Hannah Robinson [29]), the first single from Ellis-Bextor's fourth album, was released in May 2010 and reached 25 on the UK Singles Chart. HANA is a surprisingly tense piece, one which has the second guesses buried deep in the psyche, drawn out by confident approaches in the composition of these percussion-heavy tracks. What has it been like raising five boys, with all the conversations that may bring around toxic masculinity and consent? HANA – once again produced by frequent collaborator Ed Harcourt – draws on a trip to Japan in early 2020.

Young Blood" was released as the lead single from Wanderlust in November 2013, peaking at number three on the UK Indie Chart [52] and at number 34 on the UK Singles Chart.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor on heading for the Top 10 with new album

Yeah, this is pretty decent but the strengths are I think when she focuses on the more rhythm driven 90s style house-disco stuff, like the rave piano on Breaking the Circle. I teach them both sides of the coin actually,” she says, “about wanting happiness for the other person you’re with and also not compromising your own… That goes into every dynamic, every exchange they have with other people, including in our house. HANA will follow Ellis-Bextor's 2016 album Familia, and was created alongside frequent collaborator Ed Harcourt. In 2008, she featured in the short musical film The Town that Boars Me by photographer Ben Charles Edwards. The ninth track, "Reflections", is a dance song with heavy beats and was described as a "neat slice of late 70s disco- soul".She released her second record Shoot from the Hip in 2003, then after her third – 2007’s Trip the Light Fantastic – she supported George Michael on tour, though the pair never met. Ellis-Bextor described the album as "more emotionally direct" and "a little more left-of-centre at times" than Read My Lips—"It has more of a live feel [. You know, when someone’s given you a posh candle, and you’re like: ‘Oh, I don’t want to burn it, because then I’ll have used up a really nice candle? Of the song, she said that it was "inspired by those late-night moments you have, where you question everything and feel a buzz of adrenaline about what tomorrow might bring", describing it as "urgent and dramatic and optimistic".