Last heard during the first flush of spring with the smoky, Devil’s Gonna Get You, launching her into a long summer of landmark live appearances including Manchester’s Neighbourhood Festival, her second appearance at TRNSMT, a headline debut at The Isle Of Wight Festival and support slots with Paolo Nutini and The Snuts, further advances in Downey’s elevated view overlooking her own, and others’ existences, observed with a keen sense of empathy, runs through every note and line of her new music. Forging a steady path in the world around her and taking every day as it comes, projecting words of reassurance and encouragement to others, assures her graceful, outwardly effortless rise to bigger stages.
Leaving Scotland behind to move to Liverpool, a step closer to the life she’d dreamed for herself in times of doubt, Home sings the bitter taste of departure made sweet by arrival and the thrill of new beginnings.
She says of the song: ““I wrote ‘Home’ when I was still wondering whether I was going to stay or go. I always wanted to look to and travel over the horizon. Although I love Scotland, being from a small place can make people afraid to venture into the big wide world. That’s great for anyone that can settle, but it was never for me.”
