Reflecting on how much her world has changed since releasing her debut album, Bath Time, in 2019, the Galway singer-songwriter Maija Sofia says: “In every way I feel like a completely different person. Even the music industry feels completely different.”
Seizing this opportunity to start her career as if from scratch, Sofia projects a new voice on her second album, True Love. She began writing it in 2020, just as she was making seismic life changes. Moving out of a house share in Dublin 7, she relocated for an artist residency to Cobh, Co Cork, where she spent three months living alone during Ireland’s second Covid lockdown.
“I could hear the sound of ghosts on the stairs at night, like the sound of
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