Recording Will I see you again meant splitting myself between languages and headspaces.
Some days I’d write in Russian, feeling everything intensely, then translate it to English and lose half the meaning. Other days I’d write straight in English and it felt cleaner somehow, more direct. Secrets and dreams went through both processes three times before we found the right version.
Working with Vlad on this album was different than previous singles. We decided early on: no rushing, no chasing trends. If a track needed another month, it got another month. Time kills everything that I love took six weeks just on the arrangement. We stripped it back twice, added strings, removed them, added them differently.
The interesting thing about these five songs is they weren’t meant to be an album. They were separate pieces, written months apart, dealing with completely unrelated moments in my life. But when we laid them out in order, this narrative appeared. Unintentional but somehow perfect.
Fake it through Morning creates this arc from pretending to authenticity that I didn’t plan but definitely felt. And Bear sitting at the end, this guardian energy, protecting everything that came before.
London keeps appearing in these lyrics even though I recorded in Moscow. My mind lives between cities now. These tracks carry that split existence.
— Indie pop artist, musician Anastasiia Ledovskaia