Belinda Carlisle revisits her roots with the discharge of a brand new studio album, As soon as Upon A Time In California.
Following the success of her 2023 EP Kismet and the only Huge Huge Love, As soon as Upon A Time In California sees Belinda Carlisle take a deeply private journey by means of the golden sounds of her youth. It’s a heartfelt tribute to the classic popular culture that formed her musical identification.
Commenting on the album Belinda says, “I used to be born and raised in California at a time when music was an necessary a part of Californian tradition. I lived and breathed music, it was my nice escape – a refuge of fantasy and creativeness. Each day after faculty and when it was summer time trip, I might hear and sing alongside to the music on the radio for the complete day. At all times fantasising about being a singer myself, sooner or later.
“This assortment of songs is the very best illustration of what I liked again then that I may consider – listening to it brings again so many recollections of a time and a California that doesn’t actually exist anymore. That’s not meant to sound like a foul factor, it’s simply totally different – there was an innocence and vitality again then that was distinctive and magical. Issues I doubt will ever be felt in fairly the identical approach once more. Right here’s to the California of my goals.”
A Private Schooling In Pop
As soon as Upon A Time In California was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by Gabe Lopez, who labored with Belinda on her 2017 studio album Wilder Shores.
It’s a fastidiously curated and fantastically realised salute to Belinda’s private training in pop music, and the magical sounds that arrived in her life from close to and much, on the radio and on cherished 45s.
The LP opens with a stirring remake of the Burt Bacharach & Hal David gem written for Dionne Warwick, Anybody Who Had A Coronary heart. Belinda then pays her respects to such timeless artists because the Carpenters (Celebrity), Gordon Lightfoot (If You Might Learn My Thoughts), and Jim Croce (Time In A Bottle), and to songs for the ages together with Everyone’s Speaking and One (Harry Nilsson), Reflections Of My Life (Marmalade) and By no means My Love (The Affiliation).
The result’s a completely totally different form of Californian dreaming for a brand new technology. Though this marks the primary time all 10 tracks have been accessible on one album, three of them – Celebrity, If You Might Learn My Thoughts and Get Collectively (The Youngbloods) have been accessible on earlier Belinda Carlisle collections.
Included among the many 10 tracks is the lead single The Air That I Breathe, a rework of The Hollies’ hit, launched right this moment (6 June). Hear under:
Tracklisting
Anybody Who Had A Coronary heart
If You Might Learn My Thoughts
One
By no means My Love
The Air That I Breathe
Time In A Bottle
Celebrity
Everyone’s Talkin’
Get Collectively
Reflections Of My Life
Set for launch on 29 August by way of Demon Music, As soon as Upon A Time In California might be accessible on CD, vinyl together with image discs and digital codecs. Accessible to pre-order now, click on right here.
Picture credit score: Albert Sanchez
Heavenly Hits Tour
Along with the album launch Belinda embarks on her Heavenly Hits tour within the UK with reveals between 5-13 September 2025. Alongside competition appearances at Saint Helen’s Retrospective Competition (Friday 5 September) and Chelmsford’s Radio 2 within the Park (Saturday 6 September) the singer visits:
Tuesday 9 September – Edinburgh, Usher Corridor
Wednesday 10 September – Glasgow, Royal Live performance Corridor
Friday 12 September – Hammersmith Apollo
Saturday 13 September – Manchester Apollo
For ticket availability and to e-book click on right here