High Expectations

Across her formative singles and first long-form project, 'Ivy To Roses', Mabel has written with startling candour on young love, identity, girl power, and mental health - topics which are taken to greater heights on 'High Expectations'. And on that road to her first record, Mabel's music has become a soundtrack on how to turn those vulnerabilities into your advantages. 'Talking about it really does give you a kind of confidence,'" Mabel says now, "and that's new for me. If you're really going to make a record that talks to people you have to sit and pick at old wounds - put everything under a microscope. I would've loved that from my heroes when I was kid. That dream of pop stars having a perfect life has gone for our generation."