- 2025-11-24
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MUSIC
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Alice Costelloe Releases New Song “Damned If You Do”
London-based singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe will release her upcoming debut album “Move On With The Year” on February 6, 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records.
The album comprises 10 tracks, produced by Mike Lindsay.
From the album, she released a new song “Damned If You Do” on November 19, 2025.
The song is the third single off, following “Move On With The Year” and “If I Could Reach You”.
Interrogating the crossroads between art and adulthood, the track reflects on the looming rituals of marriage, motherhood, and the idea of giving oneself away.
The track was written by Alice Costelloe and produced by Mike Lindsay.
Alice Costelloe said of the song, “I was thinking a lot about the next phase of life as I wrote this album. Cocooned away and focused purely on making music, I felt more creatively fulfilled than I had in a long time. It made me question how this freedom could exist if I followed a more conventional path. To prioritise domesticity and stability or to prioritise creative ambition - either choice felt like sacrificing something essential.”- She continued, “I was also coming out of a period of keeping my head above water while navigating life with an addict parent, and I realised that whatever decisions I made next, I needed to be careful not to lose myself. ‘I don’t see myself all dressed in white / standing in the shadows’ is as much about my claustrophobia around the altar and its traditions as it is about resisting the pressure to embody some ideal of feminine virtue - to be expected to sacrifice your own life in service of another.”
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Photo by Bex Aston - source : Apple Music
