Celeste Madden is a 22-year-old British singer-songwriter who returned with her single “Joan of Arc” back in August via Sad Club Records– her first track in two years.
“Joan of Arc” captures the raw, tumultuous emotions Madden experienced following her first breakup. She paints the scene with vivid detail and imagery, allowing listeners to connect with it and reflect upon many of our own relationships and breakups along the way. The anthemic and tender folk performance captures a heartfelt nature, one that packs a swift and significant emotionally devastating staying power.
Speaking on the track, Madden adds:
“I had all these really fresh painful feelings but I was having trouble translating them into words. I remember shutting myself away for a bit during that summer, mostly because I just couldn’t communicate properly or accurately enough to any of my friends the depth of what I was going through.”
Joan of Arc is a very melodramatic song – I think partly because I was younger, and partly because it’s impossible to think the world isn’t ending when you love someone and it doesn’t work out. There’s a lot of religious imagery in the song, which I always love using because it was the background of my early childhood, but also because my relationship felt like my religion, and having it taken away made a real empty space in me.”
Enjoy a listen now below.
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