Natalie McCool releases her highly-anticipated new album 'Memory Girl' on July 30th

LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE ‘OLD MOVIES’ HERE

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Following on from a string of high-profile offerings this last year, which saw the tracks ‘Closure’ and ‘Devils’ land radio plays on BBC Radio 1, 6Music, BBC Introducing and Amazing Radio, as well as ‘A Sun Going Down’ continuing her upward ascent with ‘Track Of The Week’ on BBC Introducing Merseyside, and ‘Heaven’ and ‘Take Me To Your Leader’ picking up tastemaker support from the likes of Wonderland, CLASH, Record of the Day, Under The Radar, The Most Radicalist, When The Horn Blows and many more, fast-rising singer and songwriter Natalie McCool has now released her highly-anticipated new album ‘Memory Girl’ alongside the new single ‘Old Movies’.

Having spent the last few years developing and cultivating her sound, ‘Memory Girl’ marks a major milestone in the Liverpudlian’s career to date. Bringing together a wealth of material she has released over the last year, as well as brand new offerings, her new full-length aims to create a fresh and retrospective look at her output so far, giving us a tantalising taste of her glorious direction.

Memory Girl’s existence owes a debt of gratitude to some of Natalie’s biggest supporters, who earlier this year committed to pre-ordering the then untitled record in order to fund the pressing of the album.

Speaking about the new album, she said, “Memory Girl is about childhood and adulthood. Songs that feel introspective. Songs about not having a voice, finding a voice, jealousy, love, loss and peace. It’s about things that have left a deep mark on you one way or another, those moments from the past that hit you and knock you sideways, either making you laugh out loud or nearly die of embarrassment. It has a strong focus on the habits and mental state of myself and those very close to me. It’s really close and introspective. It’s about discovering yourself, recognising what's good for you and what’s not - it’s about learning curves.”

Adding, "I’m really excited to release the album and it’s full of these themes: self acceptance, finding your people, belonging somewhere, dealing with social anxiety and ‘otherness’, the album’s like an emotional learning curve for me and I’m really proud of it."

The new focus single ‘Old Movies’ perfectly cements the smooth and wistful nature we can expect from this new LP. While not quite the final track on her new collection, the new offering was the last song she wrote for it, acting as a curtain call and adding a sense of finality to this chapter of her life.

Explaining the new single, she said, "Old movies was the last track I wrote for the album. In the minutiae of life during lockdown I’d find myself working or doing something around the house and suddenly out of nowhere have this memory of something I’ve said or done in the past that I’m mortified by, and it would just hit me out of nowhere, and I’d agonise over it for ages.

"So Old Movies came out as an acceptance of those moments, however mortifying or embarrassing, just accept it’s in the past and you can move on. The chorus ‘sing yourself a new song’ has become some kind of mantra for me now, for when those moments hit."

Natalie McCool will also venture out on a pair of UK headline shows for later this year. Details of which can be found below:

18th August – Jaguar Shoes, London (free entry)

19th August – Kazimier Stockroom, Liverpool (tickets on sale HERE)

Natalie McCool is also running her new Memory Girl Project, where she is asking fans to submit their inspiration for a song she plans to record and release as a standalone single after the album release.For more details about the ‘Memory Girl’ project and to submit head over to - http://www.nataliemccool.co.uk/memory-girl-project

‘Memory Girl’ Tracklisting:

Heaven

Devils

Giving Up

Closure

Tongue Tied

A Sun Going Down

Take Me To Your Leader

Better

Listen To The Radio

Old Movies

Will It Happen Now?

2019 proved to be a transitional year for Liverpool based artist Natalie McCool, and 2020 saw her forging a new path for herself, having built a strong foundation to achieve great things. Her early single ‘Someone Nue’ saw her invited to support Aurora and She Drew The Gun, alongside playing many of her own headline shows across the UK. Her cover of ‘Wondrous Place’ by Liverpool legend Billy Fury was chosen by Sky to head up the advertising campaign for their highly-praised drama series ‘The Third Day’, a collaboration with HBO starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris, and produced by Brad Pitt’s production company. Check out the trailer here.

Natalie also hosts a monthly podcast series called McCool & The Gang, to explore different parts of the music industry with featured guests she has collaborated with in some form or another, including BBC 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins, Pixey, She Drew The Gun, Whyte Horses, Shell Zenner and Cleancut Kid to name a few.

The LIPA graduate released her previous album ‘The Great Unknown’ in 2016, which saw media support from the likes of The Sunday Times, Q and The Line of Best Fit. Her single ‘Cardiac Arrest’ was also playlisted on BBC Radio 1 in the lead up to the release of the album.

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