Credit: Stewart Baxter

Following on from last month's brilliant return with Sequence of Voices, Chartreuse have today shared their excellent new single I'm Losing It. Beautifully composed, the track's intricate melodies softly build around vocalist Hattie Wilson’s glittered vocals as its skittering percussion carries its forward momentum. Recorded in Iceland with producer Sam Petts-Davies (The Smile), it’s one of the band’s most vulnerable offerings to date, detailing piano player and vocalist Hattie Wilson’s experiences of undergoing major surgery at 29-years-old. Speaking about the release, Wilson says: “I had to have major surgery on my femur in December last year. I wrote this track shortly after I found out about it. The verses are about me being stuck in my own head; the thought of the operation was like a loop going round in my mind for months. I knew how long the journey was going to be - it still is ongoing, and that weighs heavy on me. I had a lot of questions, and I wondered whether I was strong enough to essentially re-learn how to walk again. At the time I couldn't understand how life was just moving as normal around me, and that terrified me. The choruses were this sort of self-made guilt trip. I felt endlessly guilty that I'd need a lot of help throughout the recovery from my boyfriend, and my family and friends. I felt like a burden… but all these feelings were only my warped perception, and everyone around me has been incredibly helpful and caring.” Take a listen for yourselves below.

The band play Hoxton Hall on tonight, Tuesday 13th May. Tickets available here.

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