Liana Flores: And So It Goes (single-sided vinyl) [VERVE]

Why you'll love it

A single-sided LP of six new songs, the follow-up to Flores's 2024 debut album Flower of the Soul. The bossa nova and 1960s folk she grew up on are all over 'So it goes' and 'Silvershoes.'

This edition

• Single-sided LP
• Six songs on one side

About the record

Flores grew up in South Norfolk with a Brazilian mother and a British father, listening to Astrud Gilberto, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso and João Gilberto, and picked up the guitar in her mid-teens so she could play the bossa nova songs she loved. A late-teens love of 1960s folk did the rest. She was posting covers on a YouTube channel called Ukulili when her song 'rises the moon' went viral on TikTok in 2021, while she was still finishing a zoology degree at St Andrews (she graduated with a first).

Verve signed her, and Flower of the Soul followed in 2024. And So It Goes is a shorter, more intimate set, six songs from 'So it goes' to 'The way I say goodbye,' built on the voice-and-guitar simplicity she has always said drew her to both bossa nova and folk. A first in zoology and a voice like this; some people are frankly unfair to the rest of us.

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Out September 4, 2026 on Verve (cat# 6108040).