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BESS ATWELL Unveils New Track ‘All You Can Do’

Woozy undertones provide a warm embrace in Bess Atwell’s newest single, All You Can Do.

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Rising singer-songwriter Bess Atwell continues to build her presence in anticipation of her recently-announced forthcoming album Already Always, which will be released on September 24th via Real Kind Records. It’s a record that traces the relationships we experience in our lives and how fragile those threads of connection can be. Ahead of the release, Bess unveils her jaw-droppingly gorgeous new single All You Can Do. Crooning her way through woozy tones and shimmering textures, it’s a heart-mellowing sound that wraps you in a comforting embrace to reassure you that you don’t owe any apologies or justifications to anyone. Kaleidescopic shimmers of guitars transform the surrounding soundscape into a summery haze, with trickles of light shining through in the form of her velvety vocals. With a quiet but assured confidence lying behind her vocals, it will lift up your mood and support you through whatever turmoils you are working against.

Speaking more about the track, she shares:

You can only live in turmoil and guilt for so long. This song was a rare moment of relative ruthlessness. A moment to breathe and stop apologising for the way I felt, and to try out blaming the other person; “I’ve gone stale / and I don’t think you taste it / well why don’t you taste it.”

However, even in an instance of liberation, I didn’t want to shy away from the fact that, humanly, a longing for meaning and guidance still nagged at me; “I treat you like a confessional / but I’m no good at fearing God at all.”

I had spent a long time feeling powerless, as if I were my partner’s pet. I spent the best part of a year living in his house, eating the food he cooked, being looked after by him. This song is a daydream of role reversal and an exploration of reclaiming control; “you’re my sweet puppy / but is man’s best friend on a lead”.

Bess has also shared an accompanying video, which sees filtered vignettes capturing snippets of a surrealistic domestic life. Explaining her inspiration behind this, she says:

There’s a tonne of domestic imagery throughout the record, and this song is no exception. The video for ‘Co-op’ was slightly more surreal, so I wanted the next video to be in a more domestic setting. I worked with director Dylan Hayes who came to my parents’ house in Sussex to shoot with his DOP Owain Morgan. The bedroom scene was shot in the attic, where I spent the first lockdown, so it was fun to see it looking quite so dreamy on film.