London’s Clara Mann today shares her new single ‘Driving Home The Long Way’ ahead of debut album Rift (out 7 March via state51), and a UK & EU tour ready to go.
Reflecting on her her experiences growing up in the Lot Valley in rural France before moving to the UK for her teens, her music touches themes of those liminal spaces exposed between light and dark, growth and remorse, loss and reclamation.
“I’ve always been so attached to my independence, so fiercely protective of it. I’d drive thousands of miles alone to prove that I could, that I didn’t need anyone – and then one day I just realised that I wanted to be able to let go of the wheel and not feel like everything was going to fall apart. I wanted to let someone in and not feel like I was losing part of myself, because they loved me as I was: free.
In the end, when I’m really in love with someone, it’s because they feel both like freedom and like home in equal measure. These days, I know that I want to share the journey, because freedom doesn’t mean anything on its own, on MY own. I want to sit in the passenger seat and watch you drive, I want to feel limitless, alongside you.”
Pre-order Rift
See Clara Mann live:
25th January, Dublin, Ireland, Gate Theatre – w/ Sam Amidon
1st February, Leeds, UK, Brudenell Social Club – Back To Back Festival
8th Febuary, Dunkirk, France – Hall de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bergues – w/ Skydaddy
22nd April – Bristol, UK – Beacon Cellars – headline
23rd April – London, UK – Stoke Newington Old Church – headline
30th April – Manchester, UK – Castle Hotel – headline
1st May – Edinburgh, UK – Voodoo Rooms – headline