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E.R. Thorpe --- 2023-06-16

E.R. Thorpe was raised on the blues in the place where folk music, full of rage and fragile beauty, goes back to the source. Her sound is evocative, sometimes wilfully naïve, sometimes considered and ultra-precise, often strange, always hypnotic. With a ragged edge that has more in common with Nick Cave, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey and William Blake than the obvious comparisons, she muses on nature and religion, God and the devil, good and evil, revealing both the beauty and devastation of life. These are songs born of deep tradition, but alive in the present day, revealing and fragile, executed spare and sharp. As a frequent collaborator, she’s the voice that haunts and caresses many Torn Sail tracks, a silver lining to Mark Lanegan’s heart-breaking cloud on “Ricochets” from the “The Short Sweet Life” album. Alongside Torn Sail’s Huw Costin and Matt Hill, she makes up The Low Drift, a folk group travelling beyond the ‘Keep Out’ signs, to the ancient green lanes and sunken tracks where their ancestors’ buried bones lie undiscovered. Most recently, her new EP (exclusive pre-release first-pressing on sale at the Second Happening) drives the raw, hypnotic, sun-bleached blues and folk into hook-laden, pop-adjacent territory. Simon Rudkin (Delia Recordings) E.R. Thorpe's eponymous EP is available now on the Cwm Saerbren label. 100 copies only, 12" vinyl.