Emma Bradley returns with new single ‘serotonin skies’.

London-based singer-songwriter Emma Bradley announces her bold return with elegantly mournful ‘serotonin skies’, a tune exploring the intense contrast between how gaining love can light up your life, and how losing it can make your world go dark.

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This evolution in sound marks a new chapter for Emma Bradley, in more ways than one. Alongside delving to more esoteric, cloudier arrangements, inspired by the likes of James Blake, Imogen Heap, Bon Iver and Danny Elfman, she found herself departing from her label and management. This separation lit a fire inside of her, inspiring a renewed driving force and thirst for creative satiety. It was now her way or the highway. No compromises, no rules; she only had to answer to herself. Finding herself solitary in the production and writing in the driver's seat for the first time, she sat in her living room and poured countless hours into the craft, both teaching herself and recounting knowledge she’d picked up from past talented colleagues, brimming with determination to make her most through-thread and intimate sound yet.

Emma shares:

“the ‘serotonin sky’ is a metaphor for the inside of your head and how sometimes there are more ‘stars in the sky’ / happy feelings than other times.” 

‘serotonin skies’ also sees Emma mourning the death of a relationship that helped recognise her queer experience.

“When I was writing this song I thought a lot about queerness and how it is so isolating to be in the closet but how it is also very isolating if you have an experience that makes you realise your queerness and then have it come to an end abruptly.” The artist ponders. “It’s like seeing through the door and then somebody closing it again.”

You can listen to ‘serotonin skies’ below: