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Hannah Reid Speaking truth to power British trio London Grammar’s ethereal pop songs have been streamed more than a billion times, but it’s only now that their lead singer has truly found her voice Words STEPHANIE PHILLIPS Photography WILL REID was disappointing and made me feel like, “Wow, the world has not moved on in the way I thought it had.” Do you think the #MeToo movement has had a lasting effect on the music industry? It made people self-reflect in the same way that Black Lives Matter has. Even really good men I worked with would be like, “I just didn’t realise that women felt this way.” It’s been the biggest step forward. Hannah Reid, best known as the vocalist of indie-pop trio London Grammar, casually reveals a major lockdown achievement as she chats from her West London home. “One positive is that instead of going out on the road, we’ve carried our creative process on,” says the 31-year-old singer, “so we’ve been writing loads and working on a fourth album.” This is surprising news given that the long-awaited third album by the band – Reid, alongside guitarist Dan Rothman and drummer/keyboard player Dominic Major – only gets its release this month. A collection of deftly woven, Balearic-flavoured pop tracks, Californian Soul tackles toxic misogyny, the death of the American Dream, and Reid’s own personal growth. It demonstrates a newfound confidence she says is down to age, experience, and the influence of a new generation of inspirational female artists. the red bulletin: You found fame at quite a young age. How has that affected you? hannah reid: We were signed when we were <strong>21</strong>, and it’s definitely changed me as a person. The music industry is a very tough landscape. It’s completely male-dominated, and it was a little bit of a shock. Also, when you experience success you’re suddenly opened up to this world of other people’s opinions. You can lose your own sense of identity a bit. But I feel like on this third album I’ve managed to get that back. I’ve changed a lot as a person, and there was just a different energy in what I was writing, and in the music. It’s kind of upbeat for us, but the lyrics are quite dark in places and a bit more aggressive. Has confidence come with age? On the first record, I was actually really lost and very vulnerable, like a lot of young people are at that age. As you get older, the things that you experience change you, and, yeah, I found a different kind of confidence. Whereas on the second record maybe I was hiding behind a bit of a veil of poetry, [on this record] I was just like, “I’m going to say whatever I want to say.” Have you consciously taken on more of a leadership role in the band? In terms of dealing with the industry, yes. If people don’t respect me as a leader, they won’t respect me at all. Because I’ve had such difficulty sometimes being the only female in the room, I was like, “If you guys support me in that way, I don’t think people can take advantage of us.” It’s an industry where you do have to have quite strong boundaries and a thick skin. It’s a constant battle. You’ve mentioned that you see the new album as a feminist record… It’s definitely in the lyrics. I did have quite profound experiences being a woman in the music industry and then realising that when I came home from being on tour and spoke to my girlfriends about it, they were all having the same experiences. It Do you find inspiration in other female artists? I love any art that’s made by women and is about being empowered. The younger generation of female artists who are leading the way, like Arlo Parks and Billie Eilish – women who are quite a lot younger than me – have helped me. You can see it in them having control over their careers and saying everything they want to say. What was it that you wanted to say with this record that you couldn’t before? There are some songs where I’m speaking about those sexual politics or dynamics that go on between men and women, with men still holding that baton of power. There’s more personal stuff that’s just about me losing myself in that environment and regaining a sense of who I was. I think I just wanted to say “Fuck you”, really. Given your newfound confidence, would you ever be tempted to go solo? There’s just a magic between us three [in the band] that I really cherish. No matter how the music changes or evolves from record to record, we’ve also evolved so much as a trio. It’s so fascinating to be a part of that. I do have a wish to maybe write a really obscure, tragic country record that probably no one would listen to. But that’s a long way off. London Grammar’s album Californian Soil is out on April 16 on Ministry Of Sound; londongrammar.com 26 THE RED BULLETIN
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