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CTV News
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
‘Things I Never Told You': Breagh Isabel steps into the spotlight with debut solo EP
The cover of Breagh Isabel's new album, 'Things I Never Told You," is pictured. After years of writing and producing for other artists, Breagh Isabel is finally releasing her very first solo EP. The Cape Breton-born artist, known to many as one-third of East Coast trio Port Cities, released 'Things I Never Told You' – a six-song collection – this week. 'Someone described it as like bedroom pop, which I think is fun,' said Isabel. The new EP marks Isabel's return to centre stage after a period spent penning and producing songs for other artists – and even landing placements on major TV shows like 'Grey's Anatomy.' 'I've been mostly working kind of behind the scenes,' said Isabel. 'But there were just some songs that felt like they had to come from me … stories that wouldn't make sense coming from anyone else.' 'Things I Never Told You' features collaborations with some of Isabel's favourite co-writers – including acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods, who duets with her on the track 'Leavin' is Easy.' 'Initially I was singing the whole thing,' said Isabel. 'But as I was working on the EP I was like, I think this would really work as a duet. So, Donovan was a sweetie and threw his vocals down. As soon as I heard it, I was like yeah … it's meant to be a duet.' While Isabel has released solo tracks in the past – including fan favourites like 'Girlfriends' – she says this new project feels like a true reflection of her own voice. 'As much as I like working behind the scenes, it was really fun to go back and stretch those creative muscles that are totally mine,' said Isabel. 'And kind of just not really have to think about anyone else in the process.' With the EP now out in the world, Isabel says she hopes listeners connect with it on a personal level. 'I always hope with every song I write that people can just find a little piece of themselves in my songs and find their own experience reflected back … whether it's exactly their story or not.' 'Things I Never Told You' is available now.
The Guardian
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Add to playlist: Sarah Meth's resplendent, intimate songwriting and the week's best new tracks
From North LondonRecommended if you like Helena Deland, Billie Eilish, Okay Kaya Up next Headlining Bermondsey Social Club, 30 July; playing Green Man festival, Brecon Beacons, August London-based singer-songwriter Sarah Meth makes eerie, skeletal dream-pop cut through with a self-deprecating, very online sense of humour. A scan of her artist page on any streaming service offers a gratifying biography of an artist slowly but surely chipping away at her style in search of a distinct point of view: the lounge jazz stylings of 2020's Dead End World give way to piquant, post-King Krule bedroom pop on 2022's Leak Your Own Blues and Billie Eilish-ish pathos on 2023's Steps EP. What could feel like a dog's dinner of genres is held together by Meth's warm, laconic voice and knack for resplendent but pathologically small-scale production. Winnies, a song from last year's NY ILY single, is built atop a delirious, translucent organ line. Unlike many of her songs, which deal in winking self-subjugation, Winnies is about a blooming sense of self-determination, and Meth smartly plays it as something that could disappear at any moment. At a recent show at London's Theatreship, a cabaret theatre on a boat in Canary Wharf, Meth previewed new songs that alternated between amenable folk music in the style of Julia Jacklin and Angel Olsen, and shimmery, skew whiff pop songs that she sang over a prerecorded track. The modes proved surprisingly complementary – indie music ego and id, maybe, or a real-time battle between extroversion and introversion. The new songs were indelible and exciting: memorable odes to growing up, and falling in and out of love, that stand out in a crowded field of indie-pop newcomers. Shaad D'Souza Debby Friday – Bet on Me'Scared of what just might happen / If I go ahead and bet on me,' the Canadian pop star exhales over anxious breakbeats, building to a cheerleader chant riotous with self-belief. LS Galya Bisengalieva – Alash-kala (The Bug Reflection) From a new EP also featuring an ambient reinterpretation by KMRU, this remix of Alash-kala sees Kevin 'The Bug' Martin blow the Kazakh-British composer's lonely, glacial crackle up to an end-of-days cataclysm. LS Danny L Harle & PinkPantheress – StarlightHarle is a hard dance revivalist and a pop producer for Caroline Polachek and Dua Lipa, and both impulses cohere on this soft-donk stomper with Grimes-ish vocals from PinkPantheress. BBT Agriculture – BodhidharmaAnyone lamenting the loss of Black Sabbath this week should turn to this crushing post-metal anthem, with a splendid sky-scorching riff as well as eerie sound design and quiet-loud thrills. BBT Geese – TaxesAfter frontman Cameron Winter became an indie darling thanks to his classic solo debut Heavy Metal, Geese return with a winner: a rumpled slacker tune that straightens up and sticks out its chest for a joyful chorus. BBT SJ – OzilWith cool, softly swinging jazz obliterated by the arrival of a hard-headed drill beat, the Tottenham MC sprinkles references to his footballing past with the nimbleness of a boy-wonder midfielder. [Not on Spotify] BBT Fever Ray – Now's the Only Time I Know (Therapy Session) Karin Dreijer is releasing an album of studio mixes of live versions of old songs: this spooked song about domesticity from their 2009 debut becomes a savage, ravey exorcism. LS Subscribe to the Guardian's rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.
The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Add to playlist: Sarah Meth's resplendent, intimate songwriting and the week's best new tracks
From North LondonRecommended if you like Helena Deland, Billie Eilish, Okay Kaya Up next Headlining Bermondsey Social Club, 30 July; playing Green Man festival, Brecon Beacons, August London-based singer-songwriter Sarah Meth makes eerie, skeletal dream-pop cut through with a self-deprecating, very online sense of humour. A scan of her artist page on any streaming service offers a gratifying biography of an artist slowly but surely chipping away at her style in search of a distinct point of view: the lounge jazz stylings of 2020's Dead End World give way to piquant, post-King Krule bedroom pop on 2022's Leak Your Own Blues and Billie Eilish-ish pathos on 2023's Steps EP. What could feel like a dog's dinner of genres is held together by Meth's warm, laconic voice and knack for resplendent but pathologically small-scale production. Winnies, a song from last year's NY ILY single, is built atop a delirious, translucent organ line. Unlike many of her songs, which deal in winking self-subjugation, Winnies is about a blooming sense of self-determination, and Meth smartly plays it as something that could disappear at any moment. At a recent show at London's Theatreship, a cabaret theatre on a boat in Canary Wharf, Meth previewed new songs that alternated between amenable folk music in the style of Julia Jacklin and Angel Olsen, and shimmery, skew whiff pop songs that she sang over a prerecorded track. The modes proved surprisingly complementary – indie music ego and id, maybe, or a real-time battle between extroversion and introversion. The new songs were indelible and exciting: memorable odes to growing up, and falling in and out of love, that stand out in a crowded field of indie-pop newcomers. Shaad D'Souza Debby Friday – Bet on Me'Scared of what just might happen / If I go ahead and bet on me,' the Canadian pop star exhales over anxious breakbeats, building to a cheerleader chant riotous with self-belief. LS Galya Bisengalieva – Alash-kala (The Bug Reflection) From a new EP also featuring an ambient reinterpretation by KMRU, this remix of Alash-kala sees Kevin 'The Bug' Martin blow the Kazakh-British composer's lonely, glacial crackle up to an end-of-days cataclysm. LS Danny L Harle & PinkPantheress – StarlightHarle is a hard dance revivalist and a pop producer for Caroline Polachek and Dua Lipa, and both impulses cohere on this soft-donk stomper with Grimes-ish vocals from PinkPantheress. BBT Agriculture – BodhidharmaAnyone lamenting the loss of Black Sabbath this week should turn to this crushing post-metal anthem, with a splendid sky-scorching riff as well as eerie sound design and quiet-loud thrills. BBT Geese – TaxesAfter frontman Cameron Winter became an indie darling thanks to his classic solo debut Heavy Metal, Geese return with a winner: a rumpled slacker tune that straightens up and sticks out its chest for a joyful chorus. BBT SJ – OzilWith cool, softly swinging jazz obliterated by the arrival of a hard-headed drill beat, the Tottenham MC sprinkles references to his footballing past with the nimbleness of a boy-wonder midfielder. [Not on Spotify] BBT Fever Ray – Now's the Only Time I Know (Therapy Session) Karin Dreijer is releasing an album of studio mixes of live versions of old songs: this spooked song about domesticity from their 2009 debut becomes a savage, ravey exorcism. LS Subscribe to the Guardian's rolling Add to Playlist selections on Spotify.
