Unflirt
Unflirt
West London rising star Unflirt has today shared ‘Had Enough’, the second track from her forthcoming EP April’s Nectar, due out on November 29th. The five-track EP follows her honeyed debut EP Bitter Sweet earlier this year, as well as a recent string of live shows including a support slot for beabadoobee on the EU leg of her tour and All Points East Festival alongside HAIM back in August. Unflirt will play a London headline show at Laylow on Wednesday, December 6th, tickets here.
Written by the singer-songwriter herself and produced alongside Mack Jamieson (Clavish, Wallice, Mahalia), ‘Had Enough’ was created as a form of emotional release to process Unflirt’s innermost thoughts. Venting her anger and pain using raw lyrics and upfront production, Unflirt explains: “Had Enough is about having doubts in friendships and the frustrations of feeling let down. I was questioning a lot if people were actually there for me and it sucks when you start overthinking everything and feeling like it’s one sided. Anyway, I feel like it’s the perfect angsty but fun song to let all of this frustration out and go a bit crazy!”
Landing in early 2023, Unflirt’s debut EP Bitter Sweet charted the ebb and flow of teenage love and heartbreak - moving from rose tinted reverence (‘Before Dawn,’ ‘Anywhere’) to regret and serene acceptance (‘Out Of Time’). On April’s Nectar, Unflirt expands her world, dissecting a more complex range of emotions alongside fleshed out instrumentation (yet with her unmistakable vocal tone still firmly at the fore). This new collection of songs represents a maturity in Unflirt’s songwriting process too. Where her past songs were penned strictly at home before arriving in the studio, this time she placed her trust in her subconscious, turning up to sessions “empty handed” to excavate her present emotions and introspections in the company of her collaborators. She worked primarily alongside today’s co-producer Mack Jamieson, with additional contributions from Iain Berryman and Bastian Langebæk (Olivia Dean, Nilüfer Yanya, Birdy.)
April’s Nectar is named after a metamorphic month for Unflirt which she credits for the many ways her life has since bloomed, its five songs being “the fruit of what began during that time.” Here, the palpable intensities of her young adulthood are displayed in technicolour. ‘Someday’ laments the cruelty of geography’s inevitable hand in love. ‘Had Enough’ reckons with the difference between real friendships and the shallower connections of youth. On ‘Just Pretend,’ Unflirt documents the folly of suppressing issues and doubts, and ‘White Noise’ grapples with a different kind of silence - that following a communication breakdown. With ‘Home,’ which echoes her earlier discography, Unflirt offers her most down-to-earth love song yet, one which accepts love in all its nuance. Speaking on the EP, Unflirt shares; “These songs touch on a range of much more complex emotions that come with the reality of being in love. A huge part also that I feel has influenced my writing on this EP is what this experience has shown me about the best and worst parts of myself. I feel like I’ve gone through a second puberty from the ages 20-23, so I feel like this EP is really symbolic of that and all of the things I’ve learnt about myself from these experiences.”
Immensely proud of her heritage, Unflirt was born and raised in West London, the first generation daughter of Filipino parents. Her earliest musical experiences are performing karaoke ballads of Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and The Beegees with her mum and dad - a “staple activity” in every Filipino household. These happy memories aided her in forging her musical identity. With no formal music training aside from basic guitar lessons imparted in her childhood by her father, she began releasing music independently during lockdown. She bought herself a microphone and a basic interface and began making music from the sanctuary of her bedroom as a way to process her emotions during the pandemic at a particularly pivotal moment of her adolescence. Unflirt has organically racked up over 5 million streams since for her deeply confessional bedroom pop, with co-signs from the likes of Beabadoobee and Deb Never – who included one of her tracks in her ‘anti pop’ curated playlist on Spotify. She has been featured on Vogue during their fashion week coverage as well as receiving support from the likes of The Face, Notion, Dork, The Line of Best Fit, The Independent and more.
West London rising star Unflirt has today shared ‘Had Enough’, the second track from her forthcoming EP April’s Nectar, due out on November 29th. The five-track EP follows her honeyed debut EP Bitter Sweet earlier this year, as well as a recent string of live shows including a support slot for beabadoobee on the EU leg of her tour and All Points EastFestival alongside HAIM back in August. Unflirt will play a London headline show at Laylow on Wednesday, December 6th, tickets here.
Written by the singer-songwriter herself and produced alongside Mack Jamieson (Clavish, Wallice, Mahalia), ‘Had Enough’ was created as a form of emotional release to process Unflirt’s innermost thoughts. Venting her anger and pain using raw lyrics and upfront production, Unflirt explains: “Had Enough is about having doubts in friendships and the frustrations of feeling let down. I was questioning a lot if people were actually there for me and it sucks when you start overthinking everything and feeling like it’s one sided. Anyway, I feel like it’s the perfect angsty but fun song to let all of this frustration out and go a bit crazy!”
Landing in early 2023, Unflirt’s debut EP Bitter Sweet charted the ebb and flow of teenage love and heartbreak - moving from rose tinted reverence (‘Before Dawn,’ ‘Anywhere’) to regret and serene acceptance (‘Out Of Time’). On April’s Nectar, Unflirt expands her world, dissecting a more complex range of emotions alongside fleshed out instrumentation (yet with her unmistakable vocal tone still firmly at the fore). This new collection of songs represents a maturity in Unflirt’s songwriting process too. Where her past songs were penned strictly at home before arriving in the studio, this time she placed her trust in her subconscious, turning up to sessions “empty handed” to excavate her present emotions and introspections in the company of her collaborators. She worked primarily alongside today’s co-producer Mack Jamieson, with additional contributions from Iain Berryman and Bastian Langebæk (Olivia Dean, Nilüfer Yanya, Birdy.)
April’s Nectar is named after a metamorphic month for Unflirt which she credits for the many ways her life has since bloomed, its five songs being “the fruit of what began during that time.” Here, the palpable intensities of her young adulthood are displayed in technicolour. ‘Someday’ laments the cruelty of geography’s inevitable hand in love. ‘Had Enough’ reckons with the difference between real friendships and the shallower connections of youth. On ‘Just Pretend,’ Unflirt documents the folly of suppressing issues and doubts, and ‘White Noise’ grapples with a different kind of silence - that following a communication breakdown. With ‘Home,’ which echoes her earlier discography, Unflirt offers her most down-to-earth love song yet, one which accepts love in all its nuance. Speaking on the EP, Unflirt shares; “These songs touch on a range of much more complex emotions that come with the reality of being in love. A huge part also that I feel has influenced my writing on this EP is what this experience has shown me about the best and worst parts of myself. I feel like I’ve gone through a second puberty from the ages 20-23, so I feel like this EP is really symbolic of that and all of the things I’ve learnt about myself from these experiences.”
Immensely proud of her heritage, Unflirt was born and raised in West London, the first generation daughter of Filipino parents. Her earliest musical experiences are performing karaoke ballads of Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and The Beegees with her mum and dad - a “staple activity” in every Filipino household. These happy memories aided her in forging her musical identity. With no formal music training aside from basic guitar lessons imparted in her childhood by her father, she began releasing music independently during lockdown. She bought herself a microphone and a basic interface and began making music from the sanctuary of her bedroom as a way to process her emotions during the pandemic at a particularly pivotal moment of her adolescence. Unflirt has organically racked up over 5 million streams since for her deeply confessional bedroom pop, with co-signs from the likes of Beabadoobee and Deb Never – who included one of her tracks in her ‘anti pop’ curated playlist on Spotify. She has been featured on Vogue during their fashion week coverage as well as receiving support from the likes of The Face, Notion, Dork, The Line of Best Fit, The Independent and more.