Bonnie Kemplay has announced her debut EP Someone, Somewhere, due 31st July via Dirty Hit, alongside new single ‘Paper Angel’.
The EP follows ‘Big Machine’ and ‘Dandelions’, the two singles that marked Kemplay’s return earlier this year after a three-year hiatus. Where those tracks established the broader emotional territory of her new chapter, Someone, Somewhere maps it in more detail across a set of songs written during a period of significant change: moving cities, dealing with a long-term injury and navigating the shifting dynamics of relationships with herself and others.
“This EP lives somewhere between transition and memory,” Kemplay has said of the record. “A few of the songs were written in times of change and uncertainty. Many of them explore childhood memories and navigating evolving relationships with myself and other people.”
‘Paper Angel’ arrives as the EP’s third single and its most precise piece of lyrical recall. Written around the memory of her first musical performance in a school nativity, in which she did not sing a single word, it turns that moment of hesitation into something more universal. “It’s about the fear of failure and looking after your inner-child,” she has said. “The feeling of hesitation and self-doubt that stays with me as an adult.”
Kemplay first broke through in 2022 when she won a BBC Radio 1 and BBC Music Introducing talent search from over 10,000 entries. Now 24 and signed to Dirty Hit, Someone, Somewhere is her most fully realised work to date.
