Amelia CoburnMyself and Other Monsters Album Launch

Renowned for her vivid, gothic-tinged storytelling, Amelia Coburn’s new album 'Myself and Other Monsters' is a cabinet of curiosities, where the supernatural hides within the domestic and beauty exists alongside the grotesque. Musically, it reaches for dreamlike arrangements and cinematic crescendos, with production shifting from theatrical brass to melancholic strings and haunting harmonies.

Amelia explains, "While writing and recording the notoriously ‘difficult’ second album, I found myself wrestling with something far more difficult than the record itself: my relationship with myself. Like many people, there are parts of myself that I prefer not to acknowledge: selfishness, jealousy, obsession, resentment, and ultimately the distressing fact that I am capable of acting in ways I do not recognise. I had spent a long time trying to suppress these facets of my personality, but realised that the more I tried to suppress them, the more insistently they would resurface.”

Coburn has a knack for making the unusual sound timeless. Drawing inspiration from gothic literature and the inherent mystery of vintage horror films, there is a darkness at the heart of many of her songs, populated by vivid characters and nocturnal creatures.

On 'Myself and Other Monsters', Amelia turns that darkness inward: “Although the album began with something intensely personal, it is not a straightforwardly autobiographical record. Once I began looking at my own darker impulses, I wanted to examine the “monsters” that exist beyond myself: spectral creatures, morally ambiguous characters, unreliable narrators and the strange ways in which people can become monstrous, or be made to feel monstrous.”

At its heart, ‘Myself and Other Monsters’ is an attempt to look unflinchingly at the contradictions within ourselves and the world around us, and to ask the listener where the person ends and the monster begins.

Shortlisted for 'Best Live Performer' at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2026, Coburn has built a devoted cult following and a myriad of richly deserved critical acclaim. Sold-out headline dates across the UK and a run of support slots with the likes of Paul Weller, Suzanne Vega, The Levellers, Katherine Priddy, Rianne Downey and Hamish Hawk have cemented her growing reputation well beyond her north-eastern roots.

Her Bill Ryder-Jones produced debut album ‘Between the Moon and the Milkman’ gained national radio play across BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, alongside tastemaker support from MOJO, The Line of Best Fit, Shindig! Magazine, RTE, The Arts Desk, Clash, Americana UK, KLOF Mag and Far Out.

Mesmerising performances at some of the UK’s best loved boutique festivals followed, alongside standout sets at prominent international showcases including Reeperbahn and SXSW.

“Songs that feel like centuries old fairy tales” - Shindig! Magazine

“What a voice! Really, really lovely” - Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 2

“The gloriously catchy tracks… at turns baroque, jazzy and oddly ornate” - Clash

“Her observational songwriting glistens with theatricality, as she unravels narratives over considered layers of acoustic instrumentation” - The Line of Best Fit

"A great voice with great tunes" - Paul Weller in Mojo Magazine

"In a cynical, meta-obsessed world, her music is wide-eyed, guileless and fresh" - The Arts Desk (Album of the Year)

“A world full of darkness and light and soundtracked by magic and melancholy” - Louder Than War

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