Phildel’s hynotic new single Monument to Life was released on 29 august ahead of her September UK tour.
‘An irresistible masterpiece’ – CLASH
‘Phildel is a huge star in the waiting, doing things her way, in her time and on her rules’ – Louder Than War
‘Enchanting pop underscored by epic synths and orchestral percussion’ – DIVA Magazine
Earlier this year, the genre-defying Phildel released her single Wild as Sin and announced a headline UK tour for September 2025. Monument to Life is another dazzling display of the musician’s expert songwriting skills, transforming a piano-led heartbreak ballad into something epic and emotional, yet refined and understated.
Phildel: ‘This is about the isolating feeling of loving someone who isn’t capable of loving you back, despite the loyalty and love that you show them, leaving you questioning if you’ve ever known love at all. And then finally pulling yourself away and realising … it’s not unlike the feeling of losing a button down a crack. That relationship held so little love for you and over time, it becomes clearer that the true loss is actually quite small.
I really enjoyed arranging the rippling strings and composing the piano part for this song – there is something very natural in the way it all came together. Something about the pace of it means that when I sing and play it, I feel such a deep sense of freedom… perhaps that’s the freedom of being liberated from an unbalanced relationship.’
On releasing music under her name for the first time, the story of Phildel Ng was one of the stranger stories in the music world – a young girl who’d grown up in a household where music was banned, her burgeoning interest confined to stolen moments at the practice room piano and a single dance music CD stashed in her desk at school. She lived for the bulk of her childhood under the rule of an abusive, strict, religious stepfather, from whom she only escaped in a separation that lost her the rest of her family, too.
From the experience came her 2013 album, The Disappearance of the Girl, a dark, breathtakingly intimate suite of songs exploring the gothic fantasies that sustained her through an unhappy time. Though written in a vacuum, Phildel’s intense piano and electronica music quickly spread to millions, soundtracking ads for Apple, Verizon and LG. She won first place in The International Songwriting Competition with her song ‘Moonsea’, picked up a Cannes Lion Trophy for ‘Beside You’ and has +95 million streams alone for her track ‘Qi’ (with 302 million streams in total).
Fast forward to 2025 and Phildel has just been featured in “Women Composers Piano Anthology” by Faber Music Publishing, a landmark collection described as an essential compendium of women composers through the centuries and further establishing the importance of her timeless musical contributions. Her most recent album Into the Woods is an alluring vision of dream pop, inspired by her unique relationship with the natural sublime, gaining over 3 million streams.
SEPTEMBER UK TOUR (TICKETS)
Wednesday 3rd – Komedia Studio, BRIGHTON
Thursday 4th – The Grace, LONDON
Friday 5th – Gulliver’s, MANCHESTER
Saturday 6th – Hyde Park Book Club, LEEDS
