British award-winning songwriter, Tom Odell returns today with ‘Butterflies’, a tender, endearing track featuring Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA. The track is a sonic continuation of Best Day Of My Life, Tom’s latest album which is out now. ‘Butterflies’ is a dedication to pure love and the tender lyrical declaration is complimented by the elegant blend of their voices, highlighting their natural synergy.
Tom’s fifth studio album, Best Day Of My Life, was praised upon its release as “a minimalist masterpiece” by CLASH, with American Songwriter calling it “concise, economical, and spare,” adding that “it’s melancholic but also offers a touch of levity. It’s a work made by someone whose fingers have toiled over and traveled on 88 keys for a whole lifetime.” With focus taken off commercial expectation around his songwriting, Tom created an environment where listeners can sit with the music and breathe. Inspired by a Rick Rubin quote on the importance of applying rules to yourself, he put that into practice, limiting himself to creating music using just his voice and his piano. The result is a work of minimalist beauty, comprising just Tom’s voice, a piano, and the occasional creak of a stool, to form what is not just Tom’s rawest and most honest album to date with its profound songwriting and masterful piano, but a body of work of which Tom is immensely proud.
Speaking about the album’s creation process, Tom shares, “I’ve never done an album that was just on the piano, and I thought it would be quite exciting. So, the whole album, there’s no other instrument on it. It is just piano and my voice. That was really incredible to work with those restrictions.”
Having fulfilled his major label record deal in 2021, Tom began to look ahead to a new era, a new way of working, and embarked on an independent new chapter of his career in which he reclaims control and takes back the reins of his artistry. Now an independent artist, free from the constraints of a major label and armed with a newfound sense of freedom, Tom Odell has stripped things back. Speaking about his newfound independence, Tom says, “I feel so free, so liberated to be an independent artist. There’s a huge amount of relief in this music, of just getting to do exactly what I want to do”
Following the release of Best Day Of My Life, Tom made his way across Europe and the UK, having just concluded his Spring North American headlining tour, a performance at Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City and one at Austin City Limits in Austin, TX. Next up, Tom is confirmed to play Bottlerock Festival in Napa Valley, CA on Friday, May 26th (TICKETS).
Tom’s hit single ‘Another Love’ continues to reach stratospheric heights, being recently certified RIAA Platinum by surpassing 1 billion Spotify streams in 2022, an incredible milestone achieved by just 200 artists. The track recently entered the Top 10 in the UK Official Singles Chart after weeks of featuring in the Top 20. The single had a phenomenal resurgence this year with the sound often being used in videos covering the crisis in Ukraine. Subsequently, Tom performed the single at ITV’s Concert For Ukraine in April that raised over £13.4m (over $15 million), performing it at the train station in Bucharest to raise awareness and money for Ukrainian refugees. Tom joined forces with GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Tiësto for a special remix of the track, with all proceeds going to the charity
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