High Romance, The New Album, Out now.
Featuring “Come Live In My Heart & Pay No Rent’, ‘How Do You Fix a Broken Sun?’ & ‘Wildfire’ as featured on the BBC Country Show with Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2 & more.
Produced by award winning London based producer Matt Ingram at Urchin Studios (Florence and the Machine, Lucy Rose, Tom Odell, Laura Marling, The Staves).
The record reached No.3 in the iTunes Country Charts, was listed in Folk Radio UK’s Top Ten Albums of the Year & was featured on Spotify’s ‘Very Nearly Nashville’ & ‘Take It Slow’ playlists earning streams of over 200,000 in the first few months of it’s release.
Reviews for ‘high romance’.
“Winters is her own woman & her voice has a uniqueness that transcends all comparisons. A force to be reckoned with. There’s a big future for her.”
— AMERICANA UK
“Four years ago, Gretchen Peters’ Blackbirds set the benchmark by which future Americana albums would be measured. Winters has set a new one. Her voice variously as powerful as a raging thunderstorm or as gentle as a butterfly’s wing. Breathtaking.”
— FOLK RADIO UK
“An Americana prodigy. Dark, moody,compelling”
— maverick
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“These new songs deal with a wide range of subjects which will all in some way examine the meaning throughout history of what the concept of ‘Romance’ has truly meant. For some writers and artists, it has meant what a lot of us today recognise as roses, candlelit dinners and the stereotypical Valentine’s Day love. For others it has meant escapism, hope, loyalty, idealism, optimism and a searching for a utopia.
Therefore, on this album you will not necessarily find a host of standard love songs. You will hear songs which deal with sunshine and darkness, the movement of people, the struggles of modern technology, growing up, following your dreams, travelling/being on the road and yes of course; 'love’ in all it’s different forms.
When I was living in London in my early twenties, alongside writing songs and having many odd jobs, I worked at Keats House Museum. I also performed as a Shakespearean actress. Shakespeare certainly had some beautiful things to say about love/ romance and so did my favourite romantic poet John Keats.
In one of my favourite poems by Keats: 'When I Have Fears’, he looks up at the night sky as his dying day approaches and sees 'Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance’. He worries that he and his pen will not live long enough to trace them all. It was this line that inspired the album title and concept.
I’ve always been a 'hopeless romantic’ but I think the older I get, the more the meaning of that phrase changes for me.”
— Emily Mae Winters