Amy Studt - new, improved and Chasing the Light
Monday, 24 Mar 2008 15:53
Amy Studt nearly packed in her musical career after early success
Amy Studt is on the comeback trail with a sumptuously mature sound and a knockout new single due out in April.
Chasing The Light, which has definite echoes of 30 Seconds To Mars and a touch of Kate Bush, is released on April 21st from 19 Recordings, and marks the return to the British music scene of Amy Studt, who clocked up three Top 20 singles and a successful debut album in 2003.
However, a year later she was seriously considering a new career away from music, working in a Cornwall coffee shop.
She said: "I very nearly walked away from it all. Then, of course, you wake up and go 'I've got this fantastic opportunity to actually do something.'"
Determined to have a second bite of the cherry, she toured with Razorlight in 2006 under the alias of Jane Walls, penning songs exactly as she pleased.
In late 2007 she released Furniture as a download, a lyrically resonant song that has been compared to Bjork and Hounds Of Love-era Kate Bush.
This new Amy Studt has drawn plaudits from Music Week, the Sunday Times and the Los Angeles Times, which said of her: "Positively incandescent torch-singing Londoner with a hair-raising emotional range that varies from cut-glass fragility to cat o' nine tails avenger."
New single Chasing The Light is a brilliant blast of emo-esque rock with a moody undertone that evokes Edie Brickell at her best.
In the era of My Chemical Romance, Evanescence and 30 Seconds To Mars, there's no reason why Amy Studt can not bring her own brand of feisty female-tinged rock to the party.
Chasing The Light is from her forthcoming album My Paper Made Men, released on April 28th.
The album includes the teasing jazz of opening track Sad Sad World; the eerie, folky yearning of Furniture; the rock leanings of Chasing The Light, dark-pop on Paper Made Man and the wonderfully delicate emotion of Here Lies Love.
Commenting on the album, Amy said: "It's a true depiction of who I am, and what this is, of course, is a creative maverick; a complex personality who is driven and dreamy; cynical and romantic; confident and fearful.2
Lee Davis