Alice Costelloe reveals ‘Anywhere Else’ – new glimpse of debut album ‘Move On With the Year’, out 6th February 2026 on Moshi Moshi Records
Produced by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, Anna B Savage) in his Margate studio
Feb/March 2026 headline tour, two London dates already sold out – tickets for remaining dates on sale here
London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe has released new single ‘Anywhere Else‘ – the latest preview of her highly anticipated debut album ‘Move On With The Year‘, out 6th February 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records.
‘Anywhere Else’ was the first track Alice wrote for the album, emerging just after she returned from recording her 2024 EP ‘When It’s The Time’ with Mike Lindsay. Still carrying the afterglow of those sessions, she brought a mellotron into her home setup and began shaping the smudged synth pulses, hushed recorder lines and loose, hand-played textures that would form the album’s core. The song opens with the quiet gut-punch of “Please don’t say it’s all for me / I would rather be anywhere else” – a line that became a kind of emotional north star for the body of work that followed.
The song became an early blueprint for the album, with its lilting melodies and brooding atmospherics leaning into instinct over intention. Opening the album, it traces the tension between the pull of obligation and the urge to flee – and the honesty that comes with finally naming those feelings.
On the release of her new single, Alice said:
“This song felt so easy and natural. All the recorder melodies were the first things I played, and it really felt like I was just writing whatever came to me without worrying about what was cool or what other people were doing. I decided I wanted the whole record to feel like that – to just take the path of least resistance at every turn, in sound and in subject.”
Produced by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage) in his Margate studio, Alice Costelloe’s long-awaited debut solo album is a document of creative detangling and emotional repair; a fragile, fearless piece of art-pop that dismantles the noise of her past and rebuilds something startlingly intimate in its place.
Moving beyond the cool precision of her indie-rock roots, she and Lindsay shape a world of mellotron drones, fluttering flutes, warped synths and stumbling pianos – drawing influence from the work of Feist, Julia Jacklin, Cate Le Bon, and Andy Shauf.
‘Move On With The Year’ is, in Alice’s own words, “an emotional catharsis” – a record written as summer turned to autumn, where lilting melodies deliver devastation in the details. These songs trace the slow, necessary work of pulling focus on a childhood lived in the shadow of addiction, and the hard-to-heal heartbreak that only a parent can imprint. Costelloe’s economical lines cut to the quick, yet they’re delivered without recrimination; there is no closure offered here, only a stoic, steady gaze. Amid brooding atmospherics and gentle, unguarded brightness, ‘Move On With The Year’ introduces an artist coming into her power – a work imbued with poise, clarity and self-possession.
LIVE DATES
2026
07 January – London, Shacklewell Arms
11 February – London, Rough Trade Denmark Street
25 February – Huddersfield, AMPED
26 February – Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda
27 February – Sunderland, The Ship Isis
03 March – London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
04 March – London, Servant Jazz Quarters (Sold Out)
23 March – Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
24 March – Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival
‘Move On With The Year’ – album artwork and track list
1. Anywhere Else
2. How Can I
3. Move On With the Year
4. Every Time
5. Too Late Now
6. Damned If You Do
7. Of Course I Know
8. Feet On The Sand
9. If I Could Reach You
10. Is There Something (Goodbye)
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