Acclaimed indie-pop singer-songwriter Fiji Blue (aka Trevor Dering) shares “June”, the heartwarming fourth single from his debut album, ‘Glide’, set for release on December 13. Dedicated to his wife Natasha, who is currently battling brain cancer, the 11-track project is filled with deeply personal yet universally relatable stories of love and loss, touching on both platonic and romantic connections.
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“June”, a heartfelt and anticipatory tribute to Trevor and his wife’s future daughter, follows previous singles “Start Over”, “Peppermint”, and “Angel”.
This summer, Fiji Blue performed at some of his biggest festivals yet, including SummerFest in Milwaukee, Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, and a headlining slot at Wicker Park Fest in Chicago. In August, he took the stage at Summer Sonic in Tokyo and Lalala Festival in Jakarta.
This month, Fiji Blue will embark on his Asia tour with stops in Singapore, Taipei, Manila, and Hong Kong.
Fiji Blue Asia Tour 2024
November 21 – Singapore – Gateway Theatre
November 23 – Taipei City, Taiwan – Clapper Studio
November 29 – Manila – Samsung Hall
November 30 – Hong Kong – Clockenflap Festival
Fiji Blue finds creative solitude in the mixture of guitar-heavy storytelling, drawing inspiration from artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan & John Mayer. After accumulating over 300 million streams across three EPs—‘Reasons You Should Care’ (2021), ‘Goodbye’ (2021) and ‘I Loved You, What Happened?’ (2022)—‘Glide’ is Fiji Blue’s first proper album.
“This album was written during a period of personal transition,” he explains. “There’s a lot of adjustment that comes with dealing with the end of relationships, feeling stuck in the middle trying to process all these intense feelings at the same time…It was like starting from scratch, both emotionally and in terms of writing songs themselves.”
To tell the stories on the forthcoming album, Fiji Blue decamped to Topanga for a weeklong writing retreat, penning a song a day and getting lost in lush production – an ascendant helium balloon of synths, skittering electronics, and widescreen harmonies cut with the warm humanity of more organic instrumentation like piano and acoustic guitar.
There’s palatable emotion reverberating through every note, chord, and melody of ‘Glide’, balancing both the pain and affection that inspired them. At its most heartbreaking, it’s a rumination on those who never really leave us, the faint imprints that linger long after lives go their separate ways; at its most uplifting – the emotions Dering prefers to focus on – it’s rich with gratitude for his friends and family, a future full of hope and possibility.
