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Sandi Thom is back. Almost two years since the release of her single ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker’ and her debut album ‘Smile…It Confuses People’, Scottish singer/songwriter and multi-talented musician Sandi Thom will release her new single ‘The Devil’s Beat’ followed by her second album ‘The Pink & The Lily’ this May.

‘The Pink &The Lily’ is an album that charts Sandi’s growth as a singer and as a young woman with tracks tackling deep subjects such as global warming and the corporate career path to more jovial subjects like partying too hard; a subject that spawned the song ‘Saturday Night’ after her Manager thought she was partying and drinking too much! The classic yet contemporary sounding record is drenched in nostalgia with a recurrent theme of a less complicated life when times were easier, like the golden age of movies on ‘The Last Picturehouse’ and her own childhood on ‘Mirrors’.

The first single from the album; the funky, zydeco influenced ‘The Devil’s Beat’, is Sandi Thom at her best.  The song, despite its upbeat tempo, is actually about one of the more serious themes on the album; global warming. Sandi sings “the devil’s got us rolling a six sided dice, he's burning up the oils and melting down the ice, and the bank tills are ringing to the tune of war, do you ever wonder what it is we’re fighting for?”. The song is full of melodic keys and snappy vocals combined with eery drums and strings towards the final chorus. It is a track so catchy that it’s hard not to hum along.

Over the last two years, Sandi Thom has gone on to achieve worldwide success. Along with having a UK #1 hit with ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker’, the track also went on to become #1 in 4 countries, one of which being Australia where it remained a record number of 12 weeks at the top of the chart. Her debut album ‘Smile…It Confuses People’ also climbed to #1 in the UK album charts and since release has sold over a million copies.

Throughout last year, Sandi Thom toured both the UK (including a set at Glastonbury) and worldwide including the US, Australia, Europe and Japan, where she performed at the legendary Fuji Rocks festival. She has just completed an acoustic tour across the UK where she played half of the set with her band and half as a ‘one-woman band’ complete with bass drum, guitar, harmonica and that unmistakable voice.

She will be back playing live and touring the UK in June after the release of ‘The Pink & The Lily’ on May 26^th.