Yoshika Colwell - There's A Time EP (2024) Hi-Res

Back in April we introduced There’s a Time, the forthcoming EP from Kent-based songwriter Yoshika Colwell. A released featuring “five tracks of timeless and emotionally wrought folk music,” as we described, “recorded live with a band that bring a rich and easy grace to Colwell’s explorations of time, relationships and the notion of selfhood.” Single ‘Adelaide’ explored the cyclical nature of unhealthy thoughts, Colwell following the building rhythms of tension and release as though to gain enough momentum to pitch herself beyond the orbit of such patterns. As the artist herself put it: “a song about catharsis and the phenomenal lightness that comes when you listen to your intuition.”

With the release of the EP fast approaching, Yoshika Colwell has returned with new single, ‘Please’. Looking to breathe fresh nuance into the trope of letting go that which you love, the song again finds itself propelled by and battling against patterns which have become detrimental to those caught within their fields. “’Please’ is a song about relinquishing your need to control outcomes,” Colwell expands, “even if that means the end of a relationship existing, or existing in a certain way. It looks to free two people from a dynamic that’s become unhealthy and painful but is seemingly impossible to leave.” A full band featuring Ben Reed (Frank Ocean, David Byrne, Sampha) and Joe Harris and Liam Hutton of Gotts Street Park bring this to life, offering a sound subtle yet vivid and rooted in the classics of the folk genre.