Old Shadows was written years ago, when Alice Phoebe Lou still didn't feel ready to share something so intimate. Today, rescued from oblivion, the song is reborn as a fundamental and biographical piece in the artist's career. With a unique emotional charge that does not seek to indulge the pain of the past but to acknowledge it, accompany it and transform it into self-love.
From her beginnings as a street musician to filling venues such as the Roundhouse in London, Alice Phoebe Lou's trajectory shows that growing up also means knowing how to go back. Not to stay in what was, but to embrace the evolution we make as people. Old Shadows is exactly that: knowing how to look at our past versions with affection and allowing them to guide us to who we are today.
The atmosphere is deeply intimate, not only because of the story that accompanies the composition but also because of the honesty of the format: piano and voice, nothing else. Alice seems to sing on the verge of tears, with an emotion that does not translate into pain but into a melancholy charged with compassion for oneself. As if engaging in a conversation with our past selves to convey consolation with a tenderness that is almost unheard of today. In that almost broken voice, there is a delicate gesture of care, of presence, of love. A love that sometimes can only come from ourselves.