Introducing Blue Roses

The last couple of years has seen a plethora of female singer-songwriters take over the charts. So it comes as a relief to discover that Blue Roses is like no other.

Having tirelessly worked away in friends' bedrooms, recording in churches in her native Yorkshire and borrowing instruments from local music shops, the first glimpse the word will have of Blue Roses (aka Laura Groves) is Doubtful Comforts, a gorgeous, heartfelt plea to a former love.

Doubtful Comforts [mp3]

The song itself sees delicate twinkling kalimba give way to a glorious, lush and symphonic backing and a vocal where Blue Roses pleads “You’re so good at getting my hopes up / Where they don’t belong / I can’t reach them.”

As lead singer Laura explains, “I wanted to create something that would connect with people emotionally, whether it be a lyric or a certain chord change or a sound - something that could perhaps become as important to someone as my favourite records are to me.”

Blue Roses' self-titled debut album is due out in April.

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