Pamela Claire - Lonely Sets Me Free

Lonely Sets Me Free is the debut studio album by Australian singer songwriter Pamela Claire, released July 2020 via Pamela Claire Music.

Pamela Claire is a Melbourne based singer, songwriter and filmmaker. Her debut studio album Lonely Sets Me Free comprises eleven original songs and has been released on a limited white vinyl with a series of original music videos supporting the album.

Pamela Claire delivers a love letter to music in Lonely Sets Me Free.  A skilful blend of genres creating a powerful, eclectic and beautiful album. Lonely Sets Me Free is not just one thing and this is where its subtle mastery lies. The songs on Lonely Sets Me Free are soulful, sad, groovy and danceable sometimes all at once.

Pamela Claire makes music for grown-ups. Claire demonstrates her delicate gifts in words, music and voice, delivering a pair of heartrending tunes that tear away at raw emotional truths with characteristic warmth and a disarming honesty.

Claire's songs are about the unexplored nooks of childhood, the hidden inconvenient truths about marriage and relationships, the bitterness of loss but most of all they celebrate the way a good groove can make your day. Pamela Claire is a shy extrovert, originally from Sydney's vast suburban sprawl. Claire loves old films and music and has an excellent recipe for sangria (Bio: Peter Galvin).

The Captain’s favourite track on the album is the emotional blues dripping song on Side B “Let The Love In”.

"Lonely Sets Me Free stops short of being conceptual art but takes on the form of a deeper experience that cannot be simply labelled an LP. Claire has tapped into the intersections of what musicians like David Bowie understood as the performative zeitgeist where art, music, and film synthesise into one" (Beat Magazine).

"The music Claire has chosen to put on the album epitomizes an auteur who takes the listener on a journey entwined with light and dark, tears and humour, with a twinge of nostalgia and an unabashed authenticity that has become quintessentially Pamela Claire"(Beat Magazine). "Leaving you in awe of how one woman’s voice can be so fluidly beautiful ranging from tenor to soprano and in true Orbisonesque style" (ForteMag).

Lonely Sets Me Free has been wrung dry and pegged on the line threadbare by the talented Justin Ossher (Producer and Arranger), Paul Bolger (Initial chart and arrangement consultant), Diego Villalta (Guitar), Adam Spiegel (Bass), Damien Ellis (Drums), Fabian Acuna (Trumpet), Carmen O'Brien (Violin), Luis Poblete (Percussion), Huw Gregory (Piano), Terry Mcleod (Sax), Redmond Black (Crystal Mastering). Photography by Albion Harrison-Naish and Tony Mott. Black Rose artwork 'Fabric Rose' by Ruben Ireland'.

This album is a limited edition on white coloured vinyl with a download code, pressed in Australia via Pamela Claire Music.