Freya Ridings - Mother Of Pearl (2026)

After wowing audiences with the soulful ‘Wild Horse’ earlier this year and the striking single ‘Wicker Woman’ in 2025, one of the UK’s most prominent singers, Freya Ridings, has announced the release of her stunning new album, Mother Of Pearl, which will be released on May 29th via BMG. The announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single, ‘I Have Always Loved You’.

Ridings left her hometown of London and moved to Los Angeles for a year in an attempt to revive her creativity. She surrounded herself with people who truly loved their craft, working with the likes of Jenn Decilvio (Miley Cyrus, Hozier), Fraser T Smith (Adele, Dave), Adam Yaron (Alex Warren), Toby Gad (John Legend, Beyoncé), and Sam de Jong (Gracie Abrams): writers and producers who wanted to hear what she had to say and make it stand out.

“You could feel their energy and their positive attitude, and it was really empowering,” she says. “Just being around them was a joy.” Slowly, the backbone of her new music began to take shape: a third act that wasn’t just about reclaiming her own narrative, but about celebrating reclaiming and coming back.

“The color palette of my first album was red and black, the colors of fire and pain. The second album was orange and green – earthy and organic. But this new music evokes water, the big blue sea, with all the depth and ancient power of the ocean: it’s grief and ancestors, the known and the unknown,” Freya says of the album.

“There’s a lot of rebellion and female rage in it that I couldn’t express before. I’m rebuilding myself into who I know I really am, instead of who others have tried to force me to be.”