New Zealand’s original pop pioneer Ladyhawke has announced her new album ’Time Flies’, due for release in October. The announcement brings with it a brand new song, the second to be taken from the album – ‘Mixed Emotions’.
Speaking about the new song, Ladyhawke (‘Pip’ Brown) said “Mixed Emotions was written with old mates Jono Sloan and Nick Littlemore (Member of Empire of The Sun, PNAU, Teenager) while I was on a writing trip in LA. Sloan had come up with a really cool bass groove which Nick and I riffed over to get the lyrics and melody. The song is about all the things you can feel with one person, sometimes all in a single day. Ups and downs, confusion, highs, and lows. And everything in between!” The past year has also felt like a rebirth to Pip. After several years of challenging health issues (including post-natal depression and being diagnosed and treated for skin cancer), when she embarked on writing songs for this new record in 2019, there was a sense of freedom in the work. “I was feeling pretty grateful to be alive and making music, so I felt like I didn’t ‘care’ anymore – not in a bad way, I just stopped overthinking it.”
Pip has been candid about her mental health struggles, and speaks freely about her experience starting therapy in 2019. “I’ve had depression and anxiety for a long time and always been really open about it. I started therapy in Nov 2019 regularly. I had reached the bottom, I realised I needed help, and I was recommended someone through a friend, who was used to talking to artists and creative people.”
“It felt like last year I changed my whole life. I decided to try medication for the first time, and it turned everything around and made me feel like a haven’t in a long time. My mum said she hasn’t seen me like this since I was 17.”
With a newly positive outlook, the release of ’Time Flies’ is set to mark a bumper comeback year for Ladyhawke
