Paige Valentine Unveils Debut Album “Lucky Blue”; Shares New Single “High”
April 12, 2024 BY Emma Orland
Today, Western Australian singer-songwriter Paige Valentine shares her stunning debut album Lucky Blue, a collection of 10 tracks that trace a sonic line between the music she made in the city, and the music created after her move to remote WA, to a town of 40 people, surrounded by unexplored wilderness and perched on the edge of the world.
It is an album layered with notes of revolution and rebuilding, with Paige’s drive to thrive amidst adversity, and her search for power within solitude. You can listen to Lucky Blue HERE.
Lucky Blue is both a personal and sonic transformation – traversing Paige’s letting go of stability and comfort, of rebuilding and reshaping her life, and of remembering the lightness of living. The journey to Lucky Blue not only helped Paige find herself as an artist, but as a person too.
All of it started at a studio with a little blue door that had a horseshoe hanging above it.
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Thematically, Paige’s music arches across age-old artistic fascinations; love, death, growth, a loss of innocence, the stark face of grief. From her celebration of a remarkable life lived on lead single “Cloud Dancing”, to her reflection on loving without considering the consequences on “Navigate”, the Bonnie and Clyde-esque renegade lovers of “Retrograde”, her fight to take back control of her life on “Horoscopes”, or the magic of harnessing a free-spirited energy and dropping your insecurities on new single “High” – every sonic moment on Lucky Blue feels as personal as reading a page out of Paige’s diary, and as close and comforting as a secret whispered between friends, yet also deeply, soothingly relatable.
It’s a testament to her ability to encapsulate a moment, a feeling, and a story within a delicate, heavenly arrangement, cutting straight to the heart of matters with devastating concision.
Of her debut album Lucky Blue, Paige Valentine says, “I thought I would dread having such personal songs out in the world, but I feel thrilled to have the tapestry of the last few years sonically woven together like it has.
“Between my time in Fremantle and time in the country so much has happened personally and globally. The most important thing for the record was for the landscapes to be the star, the focus. And I can close my eyes and picture the land or where I wrote it because of the music. I hope I’ve captured the beauty of it and a small chapter of my life and its changes. It’s been the most powerful time of my life. I hope the songs make people feel spirited, understood, and free.”
LUCKY BLUE TRACKLIST
High
Navigate
Cloud Dancing
Horoscopes
Retrograde
Don’t Tell Her
Hung Up
Hung Up (Endless Summer Reprise)
Maps
Pure (Reimagined)
ABOUT PAIGE VALENTINE
Songwriter Paige Valentine is one special artist.
Thematically, her music arches across age-old artistic fascinations; love, death, growth, a loss of innocence, and the stark face of grief. She writes elegantly, cutting straight to the heart of matters with devastating concision.
With a clever approach to production and an aesthetic akin to Maggie Rogers and Kita Alexander, Paige has mastered the ability to encapsulate a moment, a feeling, a story within a delicate, heavenly arrangement — a work so beautiful, it’s impossible to resist.
Paige’s 2020 singles, “Pure” and “Fool”– the former with more than 1.3 million streams – earned her support from triple j, NME Australia, Rolling Stone Australia, Pilerats, The Revue, Wolf In A Suit, Ear To The Ground, The Partae, and more, and saw her become a five-time WAM Award nominee and Vanda & Young International Song Competition finalist.
On the live stage, Paige Valentine has supported the likes of San Cisco, Fat Freddie’s Drop and Abbe May, and played festivals including Here Comes The Sun, Summer Fest, Cabin Fever. Later this year she will join DMAs, Chet Faker, Boy & Bear, and more at Fremantle’s Out Of The Woods Festival.
Paige’s debut album Lucky Blue is nothing short of a triumph. It is thematically broad, representative of Paige’s massive growth as an artist and a human over the last few years. The record is a patchwork of reckonings and a triumph of personal growth.
