So that you might hear me is the follow-up to Bear’s Den’s, UK silver-selling debut, Islands, which earned them an Ivor Novello nomination in the UK and a devoted following worldwide, and 2016’s more expansive Red Earth & Pouring Rain, which went Top 10 across Europe. Unwittingly, it became a theme of the album.” “To me, it’s about trying to communicate with someone and feeling like you can’t reach them anymore” says Andrew. That brief, simple sentiment that underpins all of the songs on the album expresses a universal desire that so often goes unspoken, but runs deep within us all - the primal, fundamental need for meaningful human connection. The title is taken from a lyric in “Blankets of Sorrow,” the elegiac, wistful ballad that closes the album and perfectly encapsulates the theme that runs through So that you might hear me: the need to be heard, acknowledged, understood. It’s quite a sad album, being cheated on and not getting what you want”. I get really jealous anyway, so I couldn’t fight with girls and boys. All the things I wanted from my boyfriend, he was never going to be. “‘Daydreamer’ is about this boy I was in love with, like proper in love with. “My debut album is about being between 18 and 19 about love,” she continues. I was just so excited by the whole thing that I wasn’t bothered what it sounded like.” “Most people don’t like the way their voice sounds when it’s recorded.
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“As soon as I got a microphone in my hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this,” she says.
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Singers like Jill Scott and Karen Dalton are amazing proper poets.” “I really like poetry: I’m not very good at reading it, but I love writing it. “I’ve got no problem explaining what my lyrics are about,” ADELE says. A fan of such diverse artists as Jill Scott, Etta James, Billy Bragg, Peggy Lee, Jeff Buckley and The Cure, Adele’s soul-tinged songs of love’s lost and memories made are set to resonate with all who hear them.