
Aoife Nessa Frances delivers new song "Chariot"
Ahead of her second album Protector landing on Friday (28 October), Aoife Nessa Frances has released a fourth and final preview of the record titled "Chariot".
"Chariot" is the fourth track to be lifted from Frances' Protector album, and follows previous outings "This Still Life", "Way To Say Goodbye" and "Emptiness Follows".
"I wrote "Chariot" soon after packing up my things in the city and moving to the west," Frances says. "It’s very much about this time, the process of moving away and making a new life. I wanted to communicate the beauty of transience and how my acceptance of all kinds of endings brought me closer to the people who I love. It’s about surrendering to the cycles of death and new life and owning the sense of freedom that follows. More than anything it’s about universal love and the fragility of human life. "Chariot" is the song that feels most central to the message of Protector - which is about self-preservation, finding strength within and growing closer to the part of myself that guides me towards a better path. It’s about being uprooted from what is familiar and experiencing a deepening connection with my family and friends."
Protector will follow Frances' 2020 debut album Land of No Junction, and was recorded in a small house in County Kerry with producer Brendan Jenkinson, Brendan Doherty (drums), Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh (string arrangements) and Conor O'Brien (horn arrangements).
"Chariot" is out now. Aoife Nessa Frances' Protector album will follow on Friday (28 October) via Partisan Records, and is available to pre-order now.
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