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We had the pleasure of interviewing Dot Allison over Zoom video!\xa0

After the haunting lead single Long Exposure heralded the release of Heart-Shaped Scars - Allison\u2019s first album in 12 years and her most personal to date - Dot Allison unveils another new single and lyric video, \u2018Can You Hear Nature Sing?\u2019, out today on SA Recordings.\xa0With Allison\u2019s vocals at its most ethereal, the single is tranquil in sound and passionate in spirit.
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\u2018Can You Hear Nature Sing?\u2019 originated from a poem written by Dot after her friend and poet Stuart McKenzie\xa0recommended some of his favourite poets. \u201cOn reading some of the work I wanted to use my immediate natural environment to write a poem\u201d Dot explains. The result was \u2018Emblems\u2019 set in an autumn landscape. Later, when Dot and Zo\xeb Bestel\xa0 decided to write a duet for the new album Dot suggested \u2018Emblems\u2019 as \u201ca starting point for the lyrics\u201d As it transpired it proved fundamental in shaping \u2018Can You Hear Nature Sing?\u2019,\xa0 providing much of the lyrical content.
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Dot\u2019s interests in music, literature, science and nature are integral to Heart-Shaped Scars overall aesthetic. It\u2019s backdrop of exquisitely sparse and intoxicating dream-folk evokes Dot\u2019s vision for \u201ca pure kind of album that musically imbues a return to nature. I wanted it to be comforting like a familiar in-utero heartbeat.\u201d
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The album is produced by Allison alongside Fiona Cruickshank,\xa0with Hannah Peel\xa0adding string arrangements to four songs, courtesy of a quintet of Scottish folk musicians. Recorded at Castlesound Studios in Edinburgh - Dot\u2019s home town - the sessions include new collaborations with singer songwriters Amy Bowman \u201cThe Haunted\u201d and Zo\xeb Bestel\xa0on new single \u201cCan You Hear Nature Sing?\u201d.
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Since 1999\u2019s Afterglow, Allison has striven to \u201ckeep the listener on a journey \u2013 and myself too.\u201d That journey has taken her from Afterglow\u2019s broad church (trip-hop, Tim Buckley-esque ballads, chilled psychedelia) to the sultry synth-pop of We Are Science (2002), the baroque Exaltation of Larks (2007) and the roots drama of Room 7\xbd (2009).\xa0 She\u2019s worked with an extraordinary roll call of talent - Kein Shields, Hal David, Paul Weller, Pete Doherty and Darren Emerson, Massive Attack Scott Walker, Slam, Philip Shepard, The Babyshambles & Pete Doherty, underlining the huge respect her peers hold her in.
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On Heart-Shaped Scars Allison mines a deeply emotive seam. \u201cLove, loss and a universal longing for union that seems to go with the human condition. To me, music is a sort of tonic or an antidote to a kind of longing, for a while at least.\u201d\xa0\xa0

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