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Resound Presents: Alice Phoebe Lou in Austin, Texas at Mohawk on April 16, 2024.

Alice Phoebe Lou

“There’s something so beautiful about letting the people in your life grow. Whether they’re yourfriends, your family or musicians you look up to, letting them change and leave some thingsbehind is so powerful,” says Alice Phoebe Lou.

The musician is well aware that it’s oh-so-human to long for the comfort of nostalgia. In recentmonths, she's been wrestling with who she was when she first started releasing music back in2016 and who she’s become since. “I’m about to turn 30 but people still associate me with thatyoung, sweet girl,” she explains. “As you get older, you sing about more mature themes butsome people actively push against that because it’s not what I symbolise to them.” On newalbum ‘Shelter’, Alice has no interest in people pleasing. “It’s a record about how growth andchange are so important.”

Alice Phoebe Lou started playing music as a busker after moving from South Africa to Berlin in2012 and falling in love with a lifestyle that could be so self-determined. At first, it was just a wayto earn enough money to pay rent but it quickly evolved into something more. Busking, sheexplains, “is hard and fucking humiliating. People will shout at you, men will harass you,
competition for a spot to perform can be vicious...I had countless situations where people werejust the worst. But then you have those shining moments where you genuinely move somebody.I knew that if I worked on my music, it could be something beautiful.”

Debut album ‘Orbit’ came in 2016 and saw Alice “piece together the possibility” of music turning
into a proper career while 2019’s ‘Paper Castles’ cemented her as a talented, exciting musician.
With a busker’s mentality about needing to win people over immediately, Alice only gave herself
“permission to write without the fear of judgment” on 2021’s ‘Glow’. That record and surprisefollow-up ‘Child’s Play’ allowed Alice to go “super deep and vulnerable. I think people reallyconnected with me speaking about personal, painful, tragic things that sometimes feel tooembarrassing to say out loud,” she explains. “Those two albums felt like a reckoning.”

By contrast, ‘Shelter’ is a celebration. “It’s much more self-assured and direct,” says Alice.
“That’s an exciting energy to bring to the table.”

Broadly speaking, Alice Phoebe Lou’s fifth album sees her going through a second coming ofage. After living in Berlin for the past ten years, she unexpectedly found herself without a placeto call home last May. At the same time, Alice had just started writing what would become‘Shelter’, with the first few songs confronting her past and trying to make peace with the traumasinstead of simply eviscerating them. “It was very isolating, lonely and weird,” she explains butultimately ‘Shelter’ is about “coming to that place within yourself and intentionally deciding thatwherever you are, that is home and that is enough.”

‘Open My Door’ is a conversation between Alice’s younger self and who she is now while ‘LoseMy Head’ is about wanting to be intimate with other people, but also needing to be yourself. “It’sabout loving and wanting as well as the push and pull of passion,” she explains. Rather than adeep dive into those contradictions though, one of the most powerful moments of the song sees
Alice just screaming. “It feels like a purge,” she says.

Like most songs on ‘Shelter’, ‘Lose My Head’ started with Alice sitting with her guitar, feeling themusic and singing whatever came out. “Some of the things you say are completely weird butwhen you get into a flow, that stream of consciousness can be really enlightening,” shecontinues. As a result, ‘Lose My Head’ feels like a spiritual, emotional release.

And she wants to leave space for others to feel that catharsis. “I continually strive to show
people the beauty of being vulnerable and feeling all their feelings,” she offers.

Despite the weird time Alice was going through, ‘Shelter’ never feels too heavy, with the record
championing healing yourself, confronting all the things you’ve been through and making peacewith them. “It’s about nurturing your inner child and dealing with the painful human experiencesthat come from just existing. It’s about forgiving the world and forgiving yourself to create safetyand a home within yourself,” she says. “I had to do that in order to not feel like everything wasjust fucking collapsing around me and you know what? It's been a really beautiful thing.”

Alice Phoebe Lou admits she’s still confused about the next step though. “Sometimes it feelslike I’m falling but other times I’m really inspired by the black hole abyss of what comes next.Really, anything could happen,” she grins, finding that open-endedness incredibly inspiring.

“It's an exciting time to be a female artist in the world right now,” she adds. “I feel really
optimistic about the fact that those archaic ideas about relevance based on age are becomingless of a real factor. There's just so much more chaos in the mix, where you and your audienceare in control.” It’s one of the reasons she’s remained an independent artist, despite years of bigrecord labels offering to make her dreams come true. She loves turning them down. “I just don'tneed the noise and I don't need people telling me what to do or how to do it.”

She’s always been determined but there’s a newfound confidence to Alice Phoebe Lou. She’sentirely self-taught and for years, as she progressed from street corners to dingy clubs tofestival stages and beyond, she felt that lack of musical training meant she was in a lowerleague to other musicians. “Music was definitely not what I thought I was going to do with mylife. I just didn't think I was good enough” and because she started playing music quite late, shefelt like she was constantly playing catch-up. Going into ‘Shelter’ though, Alice realised that herintuitive approach to music is a superpower. “I’m able to be sincere, vulnerable and really trustmyself. Hopefully that gives other people permission to do the same. There's no shame in beingfull of feelings.”

Alice Phoebe Lou may be entering a new phase of her life and her career, but her ambitions
haven’t changed much. “The world is constantly telling you to think bigger, to take the opportunities that you've got and find ways to multiply them, but all that feels quite gluttonous,”she explains, wanting to channel any success into building a studio to help speed up her owncreative process and maybe release music by other artists. “I feel like I’ve arrived somewhere,”she adds. “I hope young people can be inspired by the fact you can do things unconventionally,if you want.”

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