London-based singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe might already ring a bell for some of you. We first shared her music back in 2022, when her debut track “California” landed in our Best Songs of 2022 playlist. Since then, she’s been releasing songs that feel increasingly confident in their simplicity, with a real focus on feeling, space and small emotional details that linger.
She’s back this week with a new single, “Anywhere Else,” a beautifully understated confession, taken from her upcoming debut album Move On With The Year, out February 6, 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records. It was the first song Alice Costelloe wrote for the album, created just after finishing her 2024 EP, and you can hear that sense of ease all the way through, from the soft synth pulses to the recorder melodies and loose, hand-played textures. The track opens with the quietly heavy line, “Please don’t say it’s all for me / I would rather be anywhere else”, and gently unpacks the pull between obligation and the desire to disappear for a moment. As Alice puts it:
“This song felt so easy and natural. All the recorder melodies were the first things I played, and it really felt like I was just writing whatever came to me without worrying about what was cool or what other people were doing. I decided I wanted the whole record to feel like that – to just take the path of least resistance at every turn, in sound and in subject.”
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