Puma Blue will release his debut album, ‘In Praise of Shadows’, on January 29, 2021. The record will hit shelves via indie label Blue Flowers and is comprised entirely of new music.To celebrate the announcement, Puma Blue — real name Jacob Allen — has dropped the album’s first single.
The track, ‘Velvet Leaves’, comes with a new music video, which riffs on the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice.Watch the Harvey Pearson-directed clip below:Per a press release, Puma Blue said that a personal tragedy inspired ‘Velvet Leaves’.“On the summer of 2015, my sister attempted suicide.
It was a lot to process personally and for us as a family,” he said.“I always wanted to deal with it in song but I never had the language, lyrically or musically, to.
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