NINETIES indie band frontwoman Isobel Campbell has barely aged a day 26 years after quitting Belle and Sebastian and starting new life in LA.
The 47-year-old shot to fame when she was just 19 as part of the popular band.
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Belle and Sebastian was founded in 1996 by Stuart Murdoch.
The group consisted of Stuart, Isobel, Stuart David, Stevie Jackson, Chris Geddes and Richard Colburn.
Over the years they has released 12 studio albums which include hits such as The State I Am In and If You’re Feeling Sinister – and they are still a band now.
However, Isobel is not part of it anymore.
After six years in the group, Isobel decided to part ways with Belle and Sebastian.
In 2002 the singer began working on her solo career.
During her time as a solo artist, she also decided to leave Scotland and move over to Los Angeles with her husband Chris Szczech.
At first she was known as Gentle Waves, but then decided to change her stage name to her own moniker.
During her time as Gentle Waves, she released two albums The Green Fields of Foreverland in 1999, and Swansong for You the following year.
Three years later Amoirno followed, then Milkwhite Sheets in 2006.
During lockdown There Is No Other was released.
To this day Isobel is still creating music.
Earlier this month her new single ‘Everything Falls Apart’ was released – which is from her new album Bow To Love, released next month.
Speaking about her latest music, she said: “The album is about what we’re all in right now, and my response to that and my life as a microcosm within that.
“I think there’s a quote from A Course In Miracles which says, ‘Love brings up everything unlike itself for the purpose of healing and release.’
“Maybe these horrible things are coming up and out so we can get rid of them and things can be better.”
Back in 2020, when asked how her music has evolved she told PRS for Music: “I feel like I’ve been studying it my whole life.
“It’s one of my favourite things to do. It’s like completing a puzzle. In the beginning I was much less experienced.
“After doing it for a while I learned to trust that even if something is not coming together sometimes something will, and it will be really good.
“And sometimes if it doesn’t come together then just leave it, you can’t really force it.
“I usually just trust what will feel right, but then try not to worry too much if it doesn’t.
“I think it’s good to edit a lot and move on to the thing that is actually working.
“And sometimes it’s unpredictable, because sometimes an idea that I’m most excited about will be quite disappointing and then sometimes something that’s throwaway will be the best thing. It’s a mysterious mistress.”