Listen to “Pretty,” the first song from Puma Blue’s new album
thefader.comPuma Blue is the alias of Jacob Allen, a London-born artist who now lives in Atlanta. For the past half decade or so he has created a lane of jazz-inflected late night comfort music.
Across early EPs Swum Baby and 2018's Blood Loss, his music has been a nook to clamber into, shutting the rest of the world out as you enter.
Today Allen has announced details of a new Puma Blue album. Holy Waters will be released on September 1 via Blue Flowers. The first track from the album, "Pretty," comes from a deeply vulnerable place as he sings about the unique anxiety that being accepted for who you are can bring.
The feeling of distorted ideas about your own image running so deep that you begin to question anyone who finds you attractive is at the heart of the song, which warps between beautiful ambience and harsher textures to reflect that emotional journey.
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