Katie Melua: Love & Money

Renowned singer/songwriter Katie Melua has announced the details of her forthcoming ninth studio album 'Love & Money' - a stunning and highly personal ten-track opus that takes a deep look at what has happened in Katie's life over the last two years. With 56 platinum awards in her now two-decade career, Katie Melua has become one of the UK's best-selling artists after topping the charts with her debut album "Call Off The Search" and subsequently releasing no less than eight consecutive top 10 albums in the UK - most recently in 2020 with "Album No. 8". Produced by Leo Abrahams (Ghostpoet, Brian Eno, Regina Spektor), 'Love & Money' was recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the summer of 2022 while Katie was pregnant with her now newborn son. The album is an exquisite collection of songs that are essentially characterized by gratitude and the positivity that comes with new love. It is also about self-acceptance in the face of drastic changes and probably also about trying to "let go of the belief that happiness is less difficult than the opposite". Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia, Katie Melua has come a long way in every sense of the word. Immortalized by modern classics such as "The Closest Thing To Crazy" and "Nine Million Bicycles", her latest longplayer - 2020's "Album No. 8" - was the most critically acclaimed to date. It impressively showed how she had matured as a lyricist, gently rebelling against the romantic idealism in conventional pop songs and instead searching for something that felt closer to her own experience. But no matter when the last time was that you came into contact with her, there's probably no better time to take a closer look at Katie Melua's evolution as a singer/songwriter than now with the release of her new, now ninth album 'Love & Money'.