Scottish singer-songwriter Alex Amor shares her latest single ‘Aquamarine’, another glimpse of her forthcoming debut album Heavenly Bodies, out 21 August via VERO Music.
Inspired by an unexpected encounter with an oracle card reader, ‘Aquamarine’ captures the fading sunlight of summer days through waves of Americana and indie-pop. A dreamy ode to love, summer and the comfort of the coast.
“I was in LA on a writing trip and an oracle card reader at my hotel told me I’d find my answers near a body of water. So I did what all completely sane and rational people do: I listened to a random guy I’d just met. I ended up cycling to Manhattan Beach, where the first lyrics to Aquamarine came to me. Right after I wrote the lyrics, Matthew Neighbour saw on Instagram that I was in LA, invited me to his studio, and we finished the song during the final days of my trip. Sometimes, you just have to do things before they start making sense.
Alex Amor
The lyric ‘west coast air’ has a double meaning. It refers to LA, but also to growing up and spending my summers on the west coast of Scotland – especially around the peninsula of Carradale Bay. Aquamarine is a love song, but also an ode to that summer feeling: salt in your hair, wanting summer to last forever. When I think of my happiest moments, where I felt true freedom and peace, it’s on those Scottish beaches: a child running around wild, being dragged out of the sea blue from the cold, never wanting to leave the ocean.”
The accompanying video, directed by Henry Croston, captures a new memory in the making, built on the foundation of Alex Amor’s childhood memories.
“We shot the music video for Aquamarine at Beachy Head – close to my new home in Brighton. It’s a place that feels like the edge of the world. One of the music videos that changed my life was Cranes in the Sky by Solange. I remember watching it for the first time; blown away by its restraint, the carefully composed shots, storytelling through fashion, and how landscapes can become part of the narrative. Coming from a textile background, I’m drawn to texture, composition, and the use of negative space. Horizontal lines along white cliffs. Spiral motifs that repeat throughout nature, from shells on the shore to the curves in the rocks and patterns left in the sand.”
Alex Amor
Live date:
26 August – London, Rough Trade Denmark Street (In-store)
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