Orion Sun has shared her intoxicating new album ‘Orion’ in full. The West Coast R&B aesthete continually plays by her own rules, resulting in some devastatingly powerful music. A fantastic vocalist, she blends this with an impeccable ear, infusing her opaque R&B tapestries with something magical.
Essentially self-titled, ‘Orion’ is her most honest work date. Constructed over several months, it finds Orion Sun hitting rock bottom only to rise once more – her phoenix-like ascent coupled to moments of exquisite beauty. A bold, 14-track cycle of emotion, ‘Orion’ is out now and it’s coupled to a personal note from the author.
.. This album, like all of my albums, is about love.
It’s about the pain love brings whether you are with or without love. Pain finds you and tells you sweet things like ‘you will grow from this’, or ‘you wouldn’t have learned this without knowing me’. Pain has a point meaning pain has direction.
Sometimes pain leads me to my vices like weed and alcohol, lust, and too many sweets. It’s the same coping mechanism as stubbing your toes but biting your arm to redirect the pain away from your hurt toe. As you can imagine, this path leads to nowhere.
Best case scenario it leads you back to where you started. I had to lose sight of my future so I could be present. I had to walk into the unknown knowing I could get to where I wanted to go even if I was scared.
I’m always told to pick my head up but the longer you stare at the ground you begin to see it move then you get to see the whole world that lives on the ground. Ants like stars on sidewalk galaxies. I am of this world and many more, including the one where our love was enough and the world was on our side.
I’m grateful for love because it makes you who you really are. We are crazy because we are trying to forget how crazy it is to be alive. Why must I reach rock bottom to appreciate the rock at the bottom and the fact that Earth got me if nobody else does.
Hope can feel like a prison or medicine. I want to understand everything. Why I feel the way I feel and why it hurts so bad.
How am I able to talk about something that once wouldn’t dare exit my mouth without vomit following shortly after. I’m curious about life, especially my own and this album explores that. It’s ok to stay in a place/state of mind/being, just don’t overstay.
I’m constantly in a state of arrival and departure. It will have to end and love will have to say goodbye. It’s just how it goes and that is why I believe gratitude is more of a medicine than hope is.
Tune in now. Orion Sun has confirmed a string of UK dates in Spring 2025, including London’s Scala on March 6th. —.
