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Release Date Friday 5th June 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
On her new album, Neon Summer Skin, Bedouine, the project of Azniv Korkejian, explores
this feeling of safety long before one can fully understand the concept. Written with vivid,
honest and intimate imagery after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia, it tells the story of
family and upbringing, and mourns the end of her childhood. There is a singular resonance
and newfound heft in this music previously unheard in Bedouine’s discography.
Bedouine is known for making gentle, lilting folk songs that build fingerpicked guitar
melodies into tsunamis of emotion. Her masterful songwriting and timeless melodies have
earned her praise from publications like Pitchfork, who said her music “boasts a surreal calm
and lived in glow,” and Rolling Stone, who lauded her “humble folk-pop brilliance,” plus an
NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and tours with the likes of Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty.
While working on the record, Bedouine realized the pain of displacement, of searching for
home, has been a throughline in her family history. Other relatives have also experienced
this sense of loss as they’ve migrated between Armenia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. “I felt so
frustrated about the places that I'm from becoming war torn or difficult to return to,” she
says. “My family has been split apart time and time again.” This realization prompted her to
document and honor her parents’ lives and stories. On a family trip to Houston, Bedouine
recorded a conversation with her mother and sampled the introduction to “Canopies.” The
song tells the story of her mother’s time in an orphanage. She was put there by her own
mother as a way of escaping her abusive father. Nearby, her mother would sing about
feeling her daughter’s essence in the air: "The waves of Beirut's beaches flutter, and how
sweetly they blow my darling's air." It’s a story of profound yearning told with the quiet
profundity of a flower blossoming.
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