Amelia Coburn explores spectral creatures, unreliable narrators and more on her forthcoming new album – all the news here.

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Amelia Coburn announces her second album – Myself And Other Monsters, set to land on 5th March 2027. A new single – I Just Want To Say will appear on 7th October.

Renowned for her vivid, gothic-tinged storytelling, the new record is a true cabinet of curiosities, where the supernatural hides within the domestic and beauty exists alongside the grotesque. Musically, it reaches for dreamlike arrangements and cinematic crescendos. With production once again by Bill Ryder-Jones, it shifts from theatrical brass to melancholic strings and haunting harmonies.

“While writing and recording the notoriously ‘difficult’ second album, I found myself wrestling with something far more difficult than the record itself: my relationship with myself,” says Amelia. “Like many people, there are parts of myself that I prefer not to acknowledge: selfishness, jealousy, obsession, resentment, and ultimately the distressing fact that I am capable of acting in ways I do not recognise. I had spent a long time trying to suppress these facets of my personality, but realised that the more I tried to suppress them, the more insistently they would resurface.”

MAKING THE UNUSUAL SOUND TIMELESS

Amelia has a knack for making the unusual sound timeless. Drawing inspiration from gothic literature and the inherent mystery of vintage horror films, there is a darkness at the heart of many of her songs, populated by vivid characters and nocturnal creatures. 

On Myself And Other Monsters Amelia turns that darkness inward: “Although the album began with something intensely personal, it is not a straightforwardly autobiographical record. Once I began looking at my own darker impulses, I wanted to examine the ‘monsters’ that exist beyond myself: spectral creatures, morally ambiguous characters, unreliable narrators and the strange ways in which people can become monstrous, or be made to feel monstrous.”

Offering the first glimpse of the record is uncanny new single I Just Want To Say, which comes paired with a playful video that nods to Amelia’s love of film. Written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator: a woman sending love letters to a serial killer, exploring how love can tip into obsession.

As Amelia explains: “It’s inspired by hybristophilia – the intense attraction some people feel towards criminals. Where is the line between love, lust and obsession, and how far would you go for the person you believe is the love of your life?” 

AMELIA & THE MODFATHER

The album also includes a collaboration with Paul Weller, a long-time champion of Amelia’s music. She guested on his last record, Find El Dorado, and later joined him on tour for sold-out shows in Newcastle and Liverpool.

At its heart, Myself And Other Monsters is an attempt to look unflinchingly at the contradictions within ourselves and the world around us, and to ask the listener where the person ends and the monster begins.

Here’s Amelia with the band at the recent Stockton Calling:

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