Murphy, John (18 October 2021). "Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure". musicOMH . Retrieved 29 October 2021.

Taylor was previously a member of folk duo Slow Club, which formed in Sheffield in 2006. The band consisted of multi-instrumentalists Charles Watson and Taylor, with Watson on the piano, Taylor on the drums, and both performing guitars and vocals. [8] [9] The band paused working in 2017, [10] following an extensive tour to support their last album, owing to differing musical interests and Taylor feeling unfulfilled. [11] [4] Slow Club's final tour in the winter of 2016, and Taylor's dissatisfaction and unhappiness with the band, was captured in the documentary Our Most Brilliant Friends, directed by Piers Dennis and released in 2018. [12] [13] 2015–2020: The appearance of Self Esteem and Compliments Please [ edit ] Certainly, her days of perching on a toilet wondering what Rita Ora would make of it all are numbered.She puts some of her recent successes down to this change in thinking, the mantra “prioritise pleasure” guiding her to put positive energy and hard work out into the world. “It’s tiny things like, I’ve got to get all this shit to the rehearsal room on Wednesday and once upon a time I’d have been carrying it all on the Tube; now I can get a taxi.

She left when an obsession with Ru Paul’s Drag Race helped her to realise her dreams were actually maximalist: she had visions of huge pop choruses and dance routines that did not lend themselves to the gentle songs she and bandmate Charles Watson were making. DON'T TAPE OVER | Pilot Episode | Seldom Differ | Starring Self Esteem , retrieved 25 September 2023 Helm, Jake; Cairns, Dan; Dean, Jonathan. "25 best albums of 2021". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 17 December 2021.Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self esteem stars as Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London (Until 27 January 2024). Nugent, Annabel (22 October 2021). "Self Esteem review, Prioritise Pleasure: Ex-'indie girl' evades cliché on a cathartic second album". The Independent . Retrieved 29 October 2021. The album was nominated for the 2022 Mercury Prize, the winner of which was Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz.