Alice Costelloe releases ‘Move On With The Year’ and announces debut album on Moshi Moshi Records
London singer-songwriter Alice Costelloe today releases her new single ‘Move On With The Year,’ the title track from her forthcoming debut album due 6th February 2026 via Moshi Moshi Records.
Produced by Mike Lindsay (Laura Marling, LUMP, Anna B Savage) in his Margate studio, ‘Move On With The Year’ finds Costelloe reshaping her creative identity through delicate art-pop textures and emotional clarity. Moving beyond the indie-rock foundations of her earlier work, the album blends mellotron drones, flutes, warped synths, and pianos, evoking the atmospheric intimacy of artists like Feist, Cate Le Bon, and Andy Shauf.
Lead single ‘Move On With The Year’ serves as the album’s quiet emotional centerpiece. Written through “happy accidents” while Costelloe taught herself new instruments, it captures the tension between grief and renewal through looping piano motifs and fluttering woodwinds. “Though it breaks my heart / to be so far,” she sings, “I move on with the year” — a refrain that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.
On the song’s creation, Costelloe explained:
“Like many of the tracks on this record I wrote them through happy accidents while learning to play various instruments. This one I wrote practicing the G major scale on the piano and that’s basically what the bridge of the song is. So much of this record is about childhood, and growing up and it felt appropriate having something as naive as this simple scale for the bridge.
“I was feeling really bored by the guitar when I started writing this record and wanted to find new ways to write melodies. So I bought myself a flute a few months before recording, and figured it wouldn’t be too hard to teach myself and might inspire something new. With the flute, I felt like I had access to a whole new melodic world that sounded sad and pretty, and scrappy (because I was still learning). It felt right for the record that was emerging and felt way more natural to me than some slick lead guitar part.”
Alice Costelloe’s new single ‘Move On With The Year’ is out now. Her debut album of the same name arrives 6th February 2026 on Moshi Moshi Records. Available now on all streaming platforms.
We’ve covered Alice Costelloe previously: ‘If I Could Reach You,’ ‘My Whole Life,’ ‘When It’s the Time,’ and ‘So Neurotic.’
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