
Art School Girlfriend announces debut album with new cut "Softer Side"
07 June 2021, 13:12
| Written by
Cerys Kenneally
Art School Girlfriend has announced her debut album Is It Light Where You Are, alongside releasing new single "Softer Side".
"Softer Side" is the second outing from Is It Light Where You Are, following March's "In The Middle", and is teamed with another Tom Dream-directed video.
Art School Girlfriend, real name Polly Mackey, described the new song on Instagram as a "Self-certified dream-pop sad-banger".
Is It Light Where You Are will be Mackey's first collection of tracks since 2018's Into The Blue Hour EP.
Tracklist:
- In The Middle
- Is It Light Where You Are
- Softer Side
- Give
- Low Light
- Colour Me
- Helm
- Good As I Wanted
- Bored Of Myself
- Eyes On You
"Softer Side" is out now. Art School Girlfriend's debut album Is It Light Where You Are will be released via Fiction Records on 10 September, and is available to pre-order now.
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