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Maisie Peters - The Good Witch comes to Europe

Maisie Peters has spent a year tinkering and tinkering, painstakingly putting things together, only to cut them to pieces again a little later. And now she is ready to share the result of her work with the world: "The Good Witch" is the title of her new album, which will be released on June 23 via Gingerbread Man Records/Asylum and can be pre-ordered now (see track listing below). The lead single "Body Better", a vulnerable song in which Maisie deals with the agonizing question after a break-up: "What does she have that I don't?", recently offered a first glimpse of the upcoming work.

"The Good Witch" is the second studio album from the singer-songwriter from West Sussex in the UK, who reached number 2 in the UK charts with her debut "You Signed Up For This" (2021) and was honored with a "BRIT Breakthrough" certification. "The Good Witch" is in many ways the older, wiser and, yes, also: some hopes betrayed counterpart to the first album - "witching season is approaching and some unnamed individuals should be very afraid <3", Maisie posted meaningfully on TikTok earlier this week. The songs on "The Good Witch" were practically written in real time in the midst of a crazy year of touring and shows around the world, including supporting Ed Sheeran on his world tour. For Maisie, the album is a time capsule in which she documented a phase of her life characterized by career highs and personal lows and the attempt to bring it all into a healthy balance. Whereas "You Signed Up For This" was an observational coming-of-age album, "The Good Witch" sees Maisie looking deep inside herself and reflecting on herself, inspired by the works of Joan Didion and J. M. Barrie, Greek mythology and Western films. The album explores the complexity of break-ups, the preciousness of friendship and the importance of self-worth.

Overall, "The Good Witch" ups the ante in every way: the storytelling is even more astute, the artistic ambition even greater and Maisie brings a newfound confidence to the songs she recorded in London, Suffolk, Stockholm, Bergen and L.A. together with Oscar Görres (Taylor Swift, Troye Sivan), Two Inch Punch (Sam Smith, Jessie Ware), Matias Tellez (Girl in Red), Brad Ellis (Jorja Smith, Little Mix), Joe Rubel (Ed Sheeran, Tom Grennan) and Elvira Anderfjärd (Tove Lo, Katy Perry).

Maisie says: " I wrote every page with my heart, soul and blood. They are stories I've collected over the last year, simply by living them. It's a true chronicle of my life over the past few months, my own twisted version of a breakup album. The boundaries between the real and the surreal are sometimes a little blurred, but the focus is razor sharp: it's about my own world, to which, of course, only I hold the keys and maps. I am the good witch, 'The Good Witch', if you like. The atmosphere sometimes changes so abruptly, it's as if a switch has been flipped. I hope after listening to the album you feel like you've gone on a journey and got lost on someone else's planet for a while."

In spring, Maisie Peters will embark on a headlining tour of the UK and several European cities. These will be the musician's biggest concerts to date, with over 20,000 tickets sold for the shows, quite a few of which - such as at London's Eventim Apollo on April 27 - were sold out within minutes. The German dates(May 6 - Berlin, Heimathafen Neukölln; May 7 - Cologne, Carlswerk Victoria) have also been sold out for weeks. Other live highlights for Maisie in the coming months include a headline slot at Sound City in Liverpool on April 30 and a sold-out show at Brighton Dome as part of the Great Escape Festival on May 12, where she has been confirmed as one of the two 2023 Spotlight shows alongside Arlo Parks. Further support shows for Ed Sheeran in the USA will follow from the end of August.