Jorja Smith announces second album falling or flying

Grammy-nominated artist Jorja Smith has announced her return with two new singles, taken from her upcoming second record falling or flying.

Out September 29th via FAMM (home to Maverick Sabre, Bricknasty), the BRITs Critics Choice Award winner unveiled 'Try Me' and 'Little Things' from the project today.

Through her new record, Jorja has delivered a modern classic, effortlessly condensing any number of disparate styles and genres into music which thrillingly broaches any gap between Jazz, Soul, R&B and Funky House. A bold, brave and courageous leap forward from her critically acclaimed debut album Lost and Found - falling or flying is an album that speaks to the musical and emotional era where Jorja is now, and how she got here.

It's "more a statement that she has arrived, and that her understanding of her life, her relationships, and her feelings, have deepened, matured and crystallised as she enters her twenty sixth year", a press statement reads. "Despite it all," she says, "it's definitely a journey I've just started. That's what's crazy. It's only just begun."

Listen to soulful R&B offering 'Little Things' and addictive first single 'Try Me' below.

Compromised of deep, thumping drums, racing basslines, irresistible hooks and distinctive beats, falling or flying runs at the same pace that Jorja’s mind does. "I don't slow down enough," she says. "This album is like my brain. There’s always so much going on but each song is definitely a standstill moment."

Much of the creative energy that shaped the album emerged from studio sessions with the producer duo DAMEDAME* back in her hometown of Walsall in the UK Midlands. The album is both a sonic and an emotional tour of where she’s been, and what she’s been about, in the two years since she dropped her Be Right Back EP.

"It touches on breakups, relationships with my friends, relationships with old friends, relationships with myself," She says. "It's definitely about a lot of relationships, but every song I write I can sing it to myself. Be Right Back did exactly what I wanted it to do. It was a little waiting room so people knew I was coming back.

“This is the first time I’m putting stuff out there that I can connect with right now.”

Revisit our 2018 interview with the Jorja Smith here.

falling or flying is released on 29 September 2023 and is available to pre-order now here.