- 2026-01-07
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MUSIC
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Alice Costelloe Releases New Song “How Can I”
London-based singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe released a new song “How Can I” on January 7, 2026.
The song is the fifth and final pre-release single from her upcoming debut album “Move On With The Year”, which is set to be released on February 6, 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records.
As with previous songs, the track was written by Alice Costelloe and produced by Mike Lindsay.
The track skips blithely, all honeyed harmonies and tambourine shakes, while Alice Costelloe wrestles with a dichotomous truth, both a question and a statement.
Alice Costelloe said of the song, “So much of my childhood I had this feeling that something wasn't right, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. My dad was so different: he'd fall asleep mid-sentence with a lit cigarette in his mouth, he couldn't be woken up no matter how much you tried, and when he wasn't sleeping he'd take us on strange, and in retrospect, insanely dangerous adventures.”- She continued, "When I was finishing the song, I read a quote from Feist where she said, 'When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy – it's almost like casting spells.' It made me think about what it would feel like playing songs full of sadness, night after night, and whether those were the spells I wanted to be casting. So I added the line 'I am good, I'm enough, I'm surrounded by love'. I know it's unbearably cheesy, but I wanted a moment in the set that could counteract some of the darker parts of the record and manifest something more positive."
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The album comprises 10 tracks, produced by Mike Lindsay in his Margate studio.
It is is a document of creative detangling and emotional repair; a fragile, fearless piece of art-pop that dismantles the noise of her past and rebuilds something startlingly intimate in its place.
The album is, in Alice's own words, “an emotional catharsis”.
These songs trace the slow, necessary work of pulling focus on a childhood lived in the shadow of addiction, and the hard-to-heal heartbreak that only a parent can imprint.
Photo by Bex Aston - source : Apple Music
