# 4

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a wonderful start to the new year. Every day that passes we inch ever so slightly closer to the release of my album, Stars and Teeth! Which is of course the most exciting event to ever take place in the month of March…other than the occasional resurrection (AKA Easter). Luckily this year’s Easter falls in April so we’re in the clear and I can keep my ‘most interesting event to take place in March 2026’ title for now.

Ok, on to more pressing news - my single Touch Me is officially out TODAY! This is my ‘slightly different production style compared to the rest of the album song’. I hope you enjoy listening and watching the video that accompanies it. I went to the forest last week and filmed it on a first generation iPad. The iPad baby inside my heart really took control that day.

Song of the moment: Embryonic Journey by Jefferson Airplane

Pic of the moment: iPad supremacy

Q/A: How do you stay motivated to create art?”

Being self employed, which I (very gratefully) am, comes with many challenges. I treat being motivated like how I might keep a small fire constantly lit. Tending to it often and accepting its glow for what it is. Occasionally It becomes a manic inferno that feels as though it could burn brightly forever, and then other times an artist you compare yourself to wins a grammy and a flood extinguishes it all. That being said, I think rock bottom is one of my favourite places to end up. When the well dries and all creativity evaporates, that’s when somethings shifts. When nothing can get worse it truly can only ever get better. There’s something invigorating knowing that if everything I make is shit, I’m free from the shackles of ever having to make anything good again. The relief of being awful and expecting nothing is a vital part of the process to give your brain the peace it so desperately needs. Once I let the dust settle and accept my eternal silence, that’s exactly the moment a perfect environment is created for small embryonic ideas to delicately drift in and out. Similar to watching a kettle boil, inspiration knows when you’re glaring at it too hard. It’s just one day at a time, showing up and giving it a go, expecting nothing and creating with open arms.

Sophie M <3

Embryonic Journey by Jefferson Airplane, YouTube

Touch Me by Sophie May, Spotify