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Katie Gregson-MacLeod unveils tender new offering ‘Teenage Love’
It’s her first release on Matt Maltese’s label, Last Recordings On Earth.
Scotland’s Katie Gregson-MacLeod has returned with a new single, and it’s just as introspectively beautiful as we’ve come to expect from the Scottish singer-songwriter.
Having released her last solo material - the EP ‘Big Red’ - back in 2023, Katie’s latest number was born out of a period of change, as she parted ways with her former major label and signed instead to Matt Maltese’s burgeoning indie, Last Recordings On Earth.
Speaking about their friendship and now working relationship, Matt has said of Katie: “I’ve always been a huge admirer of her ability to combine sadness, humour, anger and poise all at once in her work. She’s undeniably a songwriter’s songwriter and I can’t wait to be a part of all the brilliant music to come.”.
Sharing a little more about the inspirations behind her newest song, Katie explains that “‘Teenage Love’ honours the small but mighty part of me where anger resides. I wrote the majority of the song over two years ago, making sense of some new resentment I was feeling on behalf of a younger me.
“As a teenage girl, there is a feeling that ‘angry’ is the ugliest thing you can be. Only in hindsight did I realise the power anger would have given me back then; a power that I thought I would land on in the pursuit of appearing ‘mature’ or ‘patient’. The song doesn’t regret, but it questions a lot. It sieves through some residue from past relationships; unanswered questions, resentments. It also laughs at it all the way we must to make sense of it.”
Revisit our Class of 2024 interview with Katie above, and check out the lyric video for ‘Teenage Love’ below.
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