Co-produced by Ross MacDonald of The 1975 and Ed Thomas

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Irish singer-songwriter Rosie Carney shares a second single "Fragile Fantasy" co-produced by Ross MacDonald of The 1975 and Ed Thomas (FKA twigs, Cat Burns, Amaarae).

It follows the release of the track “Here” which marked Carney’s first new music since her 2022 acclaimed sophomore record, i wanna feel happy and unveiled a dramatic sonic evolution for the artist. Backed by floating, fantasied synths, the lyrics to "Fragile Fantasy" break down some of her deepest questions and fears in love.

“I wrote Fragile Fantasy when I began to reminisce about my childhood - something I often find myself pining for,” says Carney.

“My perspective of the world came from a place fueled totally by my imagination to the extent that I had a really hard time accepting any reality outside of this growing up. I’ll never forget the first time I felt genuinely seen outside of my own family - I absolutely believed that I was a unicorn to the point that I stopped paying attention in class and a teacher of mine ended up holding me back after one day to say that she was also a unicorn but that it was important that we learn how to be humans in this life. My response to her was “I knew it” and went on to be a pretty good student all because she instilled that belief in me.”

Working closely with MacDonald and Thomas over months of sessions in London, Carney built a sonic world that pulls from shoegaze, alt-pop, and electronic textures, while remaining rooted in the raw emotional honesty that has defined her songwriting.

"Fragile Fantasy" which was mixed by Jonathan Gilmore (The 1975, Beabadoobee, Biffy Clyro) is the first track of a bigger body of work to follow on soon to be announced label cool0nline.

About Rosie Carney
Each morning in the studio the Hampshire-born, Ireland-based artist Rosie Carney would be regaled by stories of the true crime podcasts her collaborator Ed Thomas would listen to as he fell asleep. “They were about fucking plane crashes or some other apocalyptic shit,” Carney laughs. “We’d end up talking about them, and then about the way of the world, eventually bleeding into the theme of what we were making.”

These surreal, strange and somewhat nihilistic conversations chimed with that particular moment in Carney’s life. Emerging in 2019 with the spare and vulnerable folk of debut album Bare, she then caught many’s attention with a stunning and creative full-length reimagination of Radiohead classic The Bends, released in 2020.

After coming out swinging on her rockier second album, i wanna feel happy, Carney began experiencing what she describes as “severe existential dread, and feeling like I'm about to die”. Feeling like the walls were closing in, these seemingly lighthearted studio conversations over coffee brought with them a framework and theme that spoke to her current despair. A theme began to appear -- Don't Leave Me Here serving as a physical representation of her dread, but also her desire to break beyond it.

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