London-born, LA-based R&B star Sinéad Harnett returns with her third studio album, Boundaries.
A cathartic, cleansing offering, Harnett has described the album as a means of squaring up to trauma, dealing with it and letting go of it all, and striking that balance between acknowledging pain without dwelling on it and letting go without fully acknowledging it.
Since moving to LA during the pandemic, Harnett’s broadened her sound quite a bit. It’s been three years since her last album, Ready Is Always Too Late, and since then she’s folded in a bit more of a West Coast R&B sound. It’s a bit larger in scope and scale, but she still keeps that diaristic vulnerability at the centre of her writing.
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In an Instagram post, Sinéad Harnett wrote to her fans: “It’s finally here! To say this has been challenging would be an understatement, but genuinely—from the bottom of my heart—you are the reason I’m still standing. So thank YOU. This album is about healing. It’s about ending unhealthy habits and relationships. It’s about finding the strength to put yourself first so that you can resolve the things that hurt. It’s about realising that ‘no’ is a full sentence. Mostly, it’s been about taking my inner child into my arms and reparenting her, telling her it’s gonna be okay—saving her. If this album does anything for you, I hope at least it gives you permission to do that for yourself. We are all broken in some way, but in a sense, this makes us all part of something: alone, together. Sending you all my love honeys!”
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