A deep creative journey towards understanding what love is, written in the sky during countless flights between Marseille and Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland is the gift that keeps giving. Emerging from a vibrant pool of artists and creatives based within the city, Pippa Blundell is a rising singer-songwriter already recognised by the Scottish Album of the Year Awards in their ‘Sound of Young Scotland’ nominations across 2023 & 2024, and by BBC Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway as one of his ‘artists to watch’. On Friday 6 June, she’s set to share her debut album ‘common thread’, via Bridge The Gap. Drawing influence from the storytelling lineage of folk music, whilst also bringing in ambient sounds and classical vocal influences, Pippa’s music takes inspiration from the likes of Anna B Savage, Laura Marling, This Is The Kit and The Weather Station, with lyrics exploring themes of love, grief and womanhood. Since releasing her debut EP ‘sisters’ in 2023, she has supported the likes of Mercury Prize-nominee corto.alto, Rachel Sermanni, Kaia Kater and Nubiyan Twist. Her debut album ‘common thread’ documents a deep creative journey towards understanding what love is, with the 10 tracks balancing a celebration of the highs of a relationship, whilst also being a coping mechanism for her lows. She shares: “These songs explore the many ways we love. From the toxic kind, such as addiction and dependency, to the freedom of loving the simple and the mundane parts of our everyday life, the land, the nature and of course the people, and in the final track on the record – the self. common thread is the title because of this running link, all our experiences are woven together to make us who we are – the ugly and painful with the beautiful and loving.”
