Gretel Hänlyn reveals Mura Masa-produced track, "Cry Me A River"

“Cry me a river is about when you’ve been happy but suddenly you notice negative feelings creeping back into your life and you’re like ‘oh here we go, hello darkness my old friend’. Meanwhile people ask ‘how are you’ which is like stepping on someone’s iced-over river of emotions and wondering ‘will it crack and show me the truth in the currents underneath the surface or will they just say they’re fine and leave the ice unbroken’. It’s usually best to leave it unbroken, people don’t often want to know exactly how you are, there’s too much to know. Anyway, it happens to everyone, cry me a bloody river," Hänlyn explains.

"The idea started before my trip to LA and I ended it on my return back to London where depression met me at the Heathrow airport. I was stumped on how to write the chorus but I knew it needed to go somewhere new, somewhere challenging. Alex (Mura Masa, who I often view as the second half of the project) told me to ‘think outside the box’.”

"Cry Me A River" follows previous single "War With America", and her second EP, Head of the Love Club.

Gretel Hänlyn will also be embarking on her debut international tour this month, where she will play her first headline dates in Europe and North America and her biggest show to date at London’s Village Underground on 1 November.