After receiving the PRS for Music Most Performed Work Ivor Novello for her ‘Messy’ single in London on Thursday (5.21) Lola Young has dropped ‘From Down Here,.’
Her first song since her third LP, I’m Only F**king Myself, this year’s Grammy award winner worked with James Blake on the cinematic track, about which a statement read:
“From Down Here opens a new chapter for Lola both personally and creatively. Capturing the strange space between joy and pain, longing and clarity, it turns the page on her last album while pointing toward a more sonically expansive and emotionally unguarded phase of her artistry.”
About her new collaboration, the 25-year old singer/songwriter stated “The day after the GRAMMYs, I had a wave of inspiration hit me, so I got in the studio with the incredible James Blake and made this song. I am rewriting the next chapter of my story because what a boring book the old one would’ve been anyway.”
On Saturday (5.23,) the British songstress is set to perform at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland, prior to her own UK headline in June, with gigs in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and two hometown shows at O2 Academy Brixton, before to All Things Go in September and Austin City Limits in October.
It was a year ago September that Lola’s set during the event at the Forest Hills Stadium in New York ended prematurely after she fell down and needed to be carried off stage. And declaring she has to “unfinished business” to take care of at the 2026 festival, the musician will play the New York and Columbia events on September 25 and 27, respectively.
Lola’s collapse at the festival in 2025 forced her to cancel all scheduled concerts for the “foreseeable future” as she focused on recovery with the singer later admitting she has been doing a lot better but it’s an an “ongoing process”.
In an interview with The Sunday Times newspaper’s Style Magazine, Young stated “I think I would rather, for the sake of my privacy, not say too much. What I would say is that recovery is an ongoing process. I’m not the finished article, but I’m doing a hell of a lot better.” And, in a statement about the incident the chanteuse added “All Things Go, we have unfinished business. I feel blessed and ready to take it to the next level. Thank you for having me back.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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