Detailing everything from being love-struck to reconnecting with yourself post-breakup, Sarah Bernadette bears it all in her candidly colorful New Leaves album
Jazz singer-songwriter Sarah Bernadette’s debut full-length album New Leaves, out 27 May, vividly paints the changing of life’s seasons with artful ease. Going through those coming-of-age feelings like finding love, losing it and then reconnecting with yourself, New Leaves is a cross-between the effortless lyrical relatability of Taylor Swift and those jazzy earworm hooks from Lake Street Dive. Detailing the emotional highs and lows of navigating love as a young adult, she skillfully weaves together the imagery of plants and their congruity with the human experience throughout the album. Every track is a metamorphosis demonstrating growth, change, withering or renourishment. Her single ‘Green’ “refers to botanical analogies surrounding the excitement of new love as told by growing plants together with a new person,” she explains. “‘What Did I Expect?’ is the flipside to ‘Green’ – what happens when we don’t continue to nurture the growth and new life we have created together?”
Listeners can stream New Leaves on all major streaming platforms 27 May.
