Brighton singer Phildel has released a new single Wild As Sin as she works towards a new album.
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00:00Good afternoon. My name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Really lovely
00:06this afternoon to speak to Phil down. Now is a really exciting time. New single and
00:11you are working towards a new album. How far away is that album?
00:16It's hard to gauge with the creative process. There's always the hope that it will be sooner,
00:23but the reality that it will be later. So I think that hopefully the album could be ready
00:29in about a year from now. So 2026. Brilliant. But in the meantime, the single. Tell me about
00:35the single. Yeah, so I've just released the single Wilder's Sin, which is a kind of exploration
00:43into the experience of turbulent love and severance. So really, it's this kind of feeling of the
00:57brutality that can occur in relationships where there's so many intense feelings going on.
01:06It can be quite an all-consuming whirlwind of an experience. And then often when there's
01:13an untimely severance, you're left with this deep wound. So it's really a song about that,
01:19that whole experience, the kind of the art. It's like your music typically goes to some
01:23quite emotional depth, doesn't it? And you write in a, you were saying, a non-intellectual
01:29way. It's sort of controlling, going into the recesses of the mind at a kind of unconscious
01:36level. And it's as close to the unconscious as I think we can probably get in our conscious
01:44state. So I guess it's quite Jungian. There's a lot of archetypes and symbols that come up
01:50in my imagination when I'm writing music. And rather than judge or try to understand any
01:57of those things in the moment, I normally just, I let them surface. I make a note of
02:02them. I record, I'll record some of my work at the piano during that process. And I'll just
02:08let that freely, I'll let my mind freely wander and explore for about an hour. And then after
02:15that, I'll come back and I'll reflect on the session. And it's in the reflective mode that
02:20I really start to think about more kind of intellectual interpretations of what those
02:26are.
02:26After the event.
02:27Yes, that's right. But I think it's very important for me to just let everything surface
02:33without any kind of judgment, without any kind of needing to intellectualise yet.
02:38And your starting point these days is Brighton. It's been a very good move to Brighton, hasn't
02:43it? A few years back. Yes, it's been wonderful. So we chose Brighton as a place to raise our
02:49family because we wanted to live in a city where people can be themselves. And we felt
02:55like Brighton is that. Exactly. Brilliant. We're really lovely to meet you and to speak
03:02to you. Good luck with the single. And let's chat when the album comes out. Thank you so much.