Jade Bird – Who Wants To Talk About Love?
Today, Jade Bird shares her third studio album Who Wants To Talk About Love?, via Glassnote Records.
Executive produced with platinum selling Andrew Wells (Phoebe Bridgers/Teddy Swims) and with contributions by Andrew Sarlo (Bon Iver/Big Thief) and Greg Kurstin (Adele). The album launches alongside the focus track ‘Save Your Tears’.
For Jade, Who Wants To Talk About Love? is a cathartic reckoning of historical generational experience – an expulsion of complex thoughts and feelings buried deep in Jade’s psyche for years. It’s a moment in time where facing her truth, her fears and her reality in this world became unavoidable. Self-induced therapy through song that journeys through love, loss and forgiveness resulting in a new sense of self and freedom from family entanglement. Are we doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes? The question hangs over the whole record and invites us to join her quest to understand what ‘love’ is; this powerful, addictive, beautiful, destructive force that drives us all.
“I wrote this album while trying to make sense of the broken relationships in my family- my parents, both sets of grandparents – and the way they echoed into my own life when my engagement ended. It’s as much a question as an answer, wondering if I could break the cycle while finding my own path to forgiveness- not just from my dad, but for myself.” – Jade Bird
The album title is taken from the first single ‘Who Wants’, a song Jade started writing when she was 16, which finds beauty in the pain of realising you’ve lost yourself in a relationship. But really, it has been generations in the making. Its ghostly aura echoes the ghost that she saw the women in her family become when they lost themselves in toxic situations and partners who took up so much space there was none left for them.
Next came the Greg Kurstin co-written and produced ‘Dreams’ before the mesmerising ‘Avalanche’ (Teddy Greiger). Latest single ‘Nobody’ completed the single run into the album ahead of its release today.
This new album sees Jade returning to her roots in acoustic guitar and modern Americana with her soaring voice always reaching for the light. The glimmer of light here is her current partner, Andrew Wells, with whom she made the bulk of the record. Today’s focus track ‘Save Your Tears’ is one such song and is a tried and true love song, a glistening layer of gold dust left in the pan after the sand and dirt has been washed away.
Elsewhere on the album, ‘Stick Around’, dissects the way she, like her mother before her, lost herself in that relationship: “It was a way to process a lot of the stuff I was feeling after that break up,” she says, “I can’t shake this idea that we’re repeating fates.” Over strained guitar that grows increasingly fractious as the song wears on, she sings, “If you really loved me why was it so hard to stick around?” It was one of those songs that came out almost fully formed – “Sometimes it feels like you were tugging on a little string out the sky, and then it’s like, woah,” she says. “It was like being under a fog; the start of being like, okay, I’m pretty low.”
‘Stick Around’ hints too at Jade’s dad, but nothing comes close to the searing, devastating emotion of ‘Wish You Well’, in which she tries to forgive her dad, tries to move on – almost manifesting the feelings that she doesn’t yet feel. “I’ve always been really upfront about the fact that this is not a song about a romantic relationship,” she says. “I haven’t spoken to my dad in… about four years now – over a sort of disagreement at what being a father is.” It’s the sort of thing many people would shy away from talking about publicly, but sharing songs like ‘Wish You Well’ is at the core of why Jade even writes songs and puts them out into the world. For her to process her feelings, but for us too: “There’s not been one gig that someone hasn’t come up to me and been like, I fell out with my mum, I don’t speak to this person any more, I’ve lost this person… That connection, giving a person the opportunity to say ‘that’s how I feel’ – that’s the whole point in releasing music, especially at a time like this.”
A songwriter with a natural flair for blending genres, Jade has enjoyed an explorative musical journey across almost a decade as a solo artist. Having signed to Glassnote Records whilst still in her teens, Jade’s worldly approach to her music evolved over time as she increasingly became impossible to pigeonhole with each release; indie, folk, rock, pop, soul, country, Americana- she could do it all and she would – but on her own terms.
Tour Dates 2025:
Saturday, July 26, 2025: Henham Park, Suffolk @ Latitude Festival
Thursday, September 11th, 2025: Bourbon and Beyond Festival @ Louisville, Kentucky
*Thursday, September 18, 2025: Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre
*Saturday, September 20, 2025: Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
*Sunday, September 21, 2025: Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
*Monday, September 22, 2025: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
*Thursday, September 25, 2025: Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
*Saturday, September 27, 2025: Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall
*Monday, September 29, 2025: Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
*Tuesday, September 30, 2025: Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
^Tuesday, October 7, 2025: Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks
* = supporting Tom Odell
^ = supporting Young the Giant
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