Amber Arcades announces third album with lead single "Just Like Me"

"Just Like Me" is the first new material from Amber Arcades since her 2018 second album European Heartbreak, and is also the first taster of her third album that's arriving early next year.

"I wrote this song when I had just moved to Amsterdam," Amber Arcades says. "It was a sequence of extremes; we lived dead centre, at first we couldn't go out of the house without being in a huge crowd of people, then overnight it felt like an apocalyptic ghost town. The song is about the tension between togetherness and being alone that comes with living in an urban environment. The need for both but then often not being quite satisfied with either."

Barefoot On Diamond Road was conceived remotely with Ben Greenberg (Danny Elfman, Depeche, Ryley Walker) in New York while Annelotte de Graaf was in Amsterdam, and features drums and percussion arrangements by Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Adele, Lorde).

"This record really reveals parts of me and my relationship with being a musician and making music," de Graaf explains. "It’s like a reckoning, more in the moment, realising how important it is to do things for the right reasons and how that can change your process into one that embraces what exists, including yourself."

Tracklist:

1. Diamond Road
2. Odd To Even
3. Contain
4. Water Stains
5. Life Is Coming Home
6. Through
7. True Love
8. Just Like Me
9. I'm Not There
10. You Could Never Let Me Down