Rowan Flack releases the beautiful new single ‘Make Me Whole’. The track marks her first release since 2024’s Forest Fires EP and opens a fresh chapter as she begins to introduce her forthcoming EP, Nap on the Sofa.
Warm and unhurried, ‘Make Me Whole’ unfolds around a delicate piano figure, carried by textured, propulsive percussion, and buoyant double bass, ultimately bringing some beautiful jazz orientated musicality, comparable to some of the new material from Lucy Rose. Gentle melodies and spacious lyricism slowly build, balancing intimacy with emotional weight.
Running just over five minutes, the song explores longing and distance through mood, space and detail, subtly drawing on folk sensibilities whilst retaining the jazz feel at its core.
Rowan reflects on the setting that shaped the song, sharing, “‘Make Me Whole’ was written in a Bergen fjord-side café, overlooking the ocean, while performing abroad in Norway. I wanted to capture the vastness of the ocean and the longing I felt through sound. The musicians capture this; with flowing piano lines, melancholy trumpet improvisations, and experimental, folk and jazz drumming, it unveils the track in its live context.”
The single introduces Nap on the Sofa, an EP supported by Help Musicians and GENERATE Funding. Speaking about the wider project, Rowan explains, “The EP as a whole is inspired by the gentle rhythm of a long-term relationship. It’s playful and a little self-mocking.”
Recorded live at 123 Studios, Peckham, the release was engineered by Brett Shaw (Foals, Florence + the Machine) and features Rob Dimbleby (piano), Jack Lecomber (double bass), Andrew McCoubrey (drums) and Celeste Cantor-Stephens (trumpet), whose collective chemistry shaped the record.
To celebrate the EP, Rowan Flack and her band will play a launch show at The Crypt, London, on 27th February. A jazz- and folk-rooted vocalist and composer, Flack’s path has taken her from the BRIT School and Trinity Laban to Norway’s Edvard Grieg Academy, alongside a parallel career in radio with projects for One Jazz and BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Music Planet and Unclassified.
Listen to the new single below:
