Maija Sofia announces new album with stunning 'Four Winters' video

Galway singer-songwriter Maija Sofia has announced her brand new album True Love, out September 1st via TULLE Collective, with a beautiful new single.

The gorgeous video for 'Four Winters' was directed, shot and edited by Anna Heisterkamp - starring Maija Sofia, Molly Gray, Ellie O'Neill, Gav Fahy and Salvatore of Lucan.

"There was no moon that night / The sky loads me like a good / I couldn't sleep for the bleed that clots in my menstrual blood / Do you think you could love me? / Could you be here with me?" Maija asks on the opening verse. "I have loved too easily / But I go out and when no one's looking I touch the bark of the birch trees / Lined up like sentinels / One foot lost to the last century..."

The video, filmed in Dublin, uses mood lighting and night-time scenes of the city to depict the atmosphere and ethereal, harrowing nature of the song. "The man is gone, but he took something of me with him / I knew he was wrong / I knew every time that I kissed him..." The subject describes going out at night in the dress she was "changed in", referencing sexual assault. She's no longer scared of anything, but she's forever a different woman than she was before the incident.

"Nervous / excited to extend this song of pain alchemised into wild fun and love out into the aether at last. Hope you like it," Maija Sofia tweeted today. The project was self-produced alongside Chris Barry.

There's a ghostly element to Maija's work, both visually and lyrically. As a musician and performer, she refuses to hold back, baring all in the most poetic of forms.

Sofia's 2019 debut album Bath Time was described as "a collection of songs exploring the female experience throughout art, history and folklore". Her forthcoming second offering, Love Story, "is about enchantment, exorcisms, bewilderment and loving wildly".

Last July, Maija Sofia released the 'O Theremin' video, directed by M(h)aol's Zoe Greenway. TULLE Collective is ran by M(h)aol drummer Connie Keane, who also performs as electronic artist under her Fears moniker.

Pre-order True Love here.

Check out the video for 'Four Winters' below: