Sailing Stones – A Promise To Love
Irish born and Bristol-based artist Sailing Stones prepares to mesmerise with the release of her poignant new single “A Promise To Love”, out now.
This is the first single to be taken from her highly anticipated sophomore album Slow Magic, out 3rd July 2026.
Many of Lindfors’ songs are like finely wrought vignettes. “A Promise To Love” explores the colour red, honing in on fuzzy details from the early mornings Lindfors struggled to adjust to as a parent. These could be moments of celestial visitation or horror, depending on your perspective: “a ribbon of light/ a line in the hallway/a voice in the doorway”, Lindfors sings.
In 2024, Lindfors gave birth to her second child, a son. This year, her gorgeous songs will also be travelling out into the world, providing twelve kaleidoscopic windows into recognisable worlds. Experiencing Slow Magic is like entering into another dimension. Here are songs that stare at the fire, linger in rainbows, fall in slow motion like comets. Their sounds summon up Bobbie Gentry’s country heat, Scott Walker’s gutsy spirit and Linda Perhacs’ uncanny beauty. Hazy woodwind, warm guitars and spacey electronics, fed into malfunctioning tape machines, weave together and glimmer. As they descend into layers of reverb, we’re pulled into the whirlpool with them.
The lyrics of Jenny Lindfors, who records as Sailing Stones, is reminiscent of when time felt both stretched and condensed, fractured and endless, in those strange, distant years when one has recently created new life. In recent years, there have been many other albums about matrescence – the physical, psychological and emotional transition a woman goes through when becoming a mother – but don’t dismiss this as a trend. This is more a communal recognition – at long last – of an experience that affects more than half of human beings in so many mercurial, mind-bending ways.
On these twelve psychedelic, poetic, panoramic songs, Lindfors ascribes each song to a different colour – feeding in her experiences of joy, dissociation, loneliness, rapture, desire and desperation. She produced these songs herself, set against haunting arrangements by her partner, composer Dan Moore. Some songs were recorded at home, others were given overdubs in a chapel-turned-studio in rural West Wales.
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