Patience Please’s latest release is an honest, soul-searching song emerging from the fracture of first heartbreak.
Patience Please – Madelaine
‘Madelaine’ is the latest single from West London three-piece Patience Please and is taken from their forthcoming debut 6-track EP “Miles Away” due out on Feb 27th.
Dialling down the heavier, boisterous guitar sound that gave previous releases ‘Wasting Time’ and ‘Pretend’ their motivation, ‘Madelaine’ employs a more folkier, lighter touch, suitable for exploring human vulnerability, bringing to mind Liverpudlian storytellers The Coral and revealing another side to the band’s musicianship.
Written by lead singer/guitarist Ollie Palmer, the song journeys from reflection in a search to find meaning – picking through the remnants of a relationship like the embers of a once roaring fire – through to an undying hope that someday there will be a reuniting:
“So please don’t go thinking that, it wasn’t meant to be/I’m still waiting here, I hope, you’ll come back to me”.
But the only thing that the singer discovers is the stark realisation that he cannot rationalise the breakup on his own terms, with Madelaine holding all the answers as well as provoking all the questions: “Just give me the answers to my never-ending quest, I’ve come to the end and there’s nothing in the chest”
This song was written in a relaxed, open, and vulnerable state, where I felt free to spill my thoughts onto the page without judgment. It came from my first experience of heartbreak, a heady mix of confusion, hope and despair colliding at once.
Rendered through a mix of guitars that both gently accompany the vocal on its melodic course and soar in moments of yearning and backed by a feathered drum beat with flourishes of caressing strings that glisten and heighten the emotion.
‘Madelaine’ is a song that truly captures the hurt and rawness, the confusion, hope and despair of lost love.
With a quarter-final place in the Isle of Wight Festival’s New Blood competition and a chance to play at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival this year, 2026 is looking very good for Ollie Palmer, guitarist Arthur Marriott and drummer Tommy Lane. And with ‘Madelaine’, they have crafted a song that shows a tenderness and an ability to see them as real contenders.
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