Mathilda Homer returns with a new single, 'Pretty In Blue’, a tender and quietly resolute new single out on RCA Records.
Built around delicate piano and Mathilda’s unmistakable husky vocal, ‘Pretty In Blue’ unfolds as an ode to friendship and self-worth. Written for a close friend who felt her value had become entangled with beauty standards, the song moves gently but purposefully, a series of affirmations that remind us how much of a person exists beyond what the world chooses to see.
“I wrote Pretty In Blue after seeing my best friend in quite a dark place, feeling like her worth was tied up in her unbelievably beautiful looks,” Homer says. “In a world of diet culture and women constantly being measured against beauty standards, I wanted to remind her she’s everything else too, hilarious, kind, thoughtful, and brilliant beyond that. She’s a rockstar, and I needed her to know.”
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The single marks Homer’s return after several years away from the spotlight. During that time, she welcomed two children and stepped into a life that looks very different from the one she left behind. Now living on a farm with her partner and collaborator, Isaac Waddington, their children, and her family, she began writing again in the hushed spaces between the rhythms of motherhood.
Much of the music that followed was created late at night while her children slept, songs written slowly and instinctively at home, shaped by reflection and the clarity that comes with stepping away from the noise of the industry.
Homer first emerged with her debut EP, God’s A Girl and 2021’s If You Were On Fire, steadily building a reputation for her soulful songwriting, dry wit, and unmistakable raspy tone. Along the way, she earned notable support from BBC Radio 1, alongside early praise from titles including Clash, DORK, NME, Rollacoaster, The Line of Best Fit, Notion, Wonderland and more. Homer also notably opened the main stage at All Points East and supported Florence And The Machine.
With ‘Pretty In Blue’, Homer returns with renewed perspective and still confidence; the first glimpse of more music to come, shaped by motherhood, reflection, and the inward beauty of everyday life. It’s a return defined not by reinvention, but by clarity. Later this Spring, those songs will step into the room for the first time when she plays a special headline show at London’s Folklore on April 28.
