Tracy Bruen has returned with her first new music since last year, when she took listeners by storm with her radio hit 'Dream Away'. Bruen's latest single is a song about love and loss, called ‘Better Than This’, and captures her realisation that life’s challenges and heartaches make us who we are and strengthen the bonds of love in the relationships that matter most.

The Galway-born singer-songwriter recorded and mixed 'Better Than This' with Ray Diamond, while the track was written by Bruen and arranged collaboratively with her whole band.

Hopeful and uplifting, the song is accompanied by a heartwarming video featuring a selection of lockdown portraits loaned to Bruen by Galway photographer EMJ Camera. The video was directed by filmmaker AMW Visual, who has directed many of Tracy's previous releases, including 'Dream Away'.

“All of the photos for this independent ‘Self Isolation Portrait’ project were taken during the first lockdown in 2020, the time when people couldn't see many other faces or leave their houses," says EMJ Camera. "People posed at their safe place-at their doorstep, introducing one of the new hobbies they took up since the world went into a shutdown. The agenda was very simple- to show some positive and uplifting news, as well as to link and support each other during the doom and gloom times.

“As a photographer, I wanted to document that current situation through my own angle that had no negativity and give a bit of a bright spark to the community. The whole process ended up being incredibly fulfilling and heartwarming, revisiting some old friends and even making new ones."

Listen to the track below.