After 80 million YouTube views, 1.5 million sales of singles from her debut album ‘English Rain’, and No. 1 chart positions in the UK and Australia, Gabrielle Aplin has released her second album ‘Light Up The Dark’ through Parlophone. 

The songs on ‘Light Up The Dark’ bristle with energy, and crackle with atmosphere and swagger. These are songs with attitude and ideas, written from the head and the heart, bound for the soul.  Alongside the title track, other highlights include ‘Skeleton’ - energetic with synthesised brass stabs, and pounding piano, and ‘Sweet Nothing’, with its infectious syncopated beat and giddy rush of a vocal. ‘Shallow Love’ is a pulse-stopping ballad rich with gospel-inspired backing vocals that sound both heavenly-high and down-home. Then there’s ‘Heavy Heart’, a bluesy groove that showcases the new depth and range to her voice, and which was recorded on a vintage microphone. 

“I’ve just seen stuff, and I wanted to write about more stuff,” Gabrielle explains. “The more you play the better you get. I did ‘English Rain’ and then I went on tour for months and months. I got better at electric guitar, I got better at piano, I got better at writing. I met musicians and I hung out more. All of that was so good and useful when it came to writing and recording this one.”