‘Like A Feather‘ is the lead song from jazz-folk singer Lucy Mellenfield’s debut album “Tell The Water, She Will Listen” (out on the 16th of January) and, like the album, it draws on matters very personal to the Birmingham (UK!) based singer. Lucy Mellenfield has said that it is a song which channels a youthful perspective of coping with family conflict, drawing upon the trials and tribulations of divorce, explaining, “As a child, there is burning hope that one day things will resolve; however, upon reaching adulthood, you learn to live with a pain that may always exist.”
Lucy Mellenfield previously self-released music while studying at the University of Southampton, but developed her craft with a move to Birmingham to study a masters in jazz voice. That was in 2020, and Mellenfield reflects that her new album also draws inspiration from the strange world of those years: “the whole lockdown period inspired creativity and lent a lot of time to focus on songwriting, a chance for an empty mind to wander and reflect. Meanwhile, events sprouting up around the world generated a whole new perspective and triggered a lot of questions. Never in my life had my instincts felt so alive. The following years rolled on, unravelling more unrest, protest, conflicts of opinion. People were hooked to their screens like never before, and society was broken apart with so many people rife with judgement. A lot of society lost perspective and the ability to empathise, thanks to the hounding nature of the media. Both the real and online world became a battlefield.”
Lucy Mellenfield will play London’s famed Green Note on December 19th.
