IONA ZAJAC + JACKSON ROY + MR BEALE

IONA ZAJAC

Bang is a truly original debut album that burns bright with emotion and wild imagination, confirming Zajac as one of Scotland’s most fearless and intriguing new voices.” The Skinny Album of the Month ****

“A powerful piece of personal witness-bearing…Zajac’s gnomic lyrics make the direct bits hit that bit harder…”The hits keep coming” Mojo****

“A name to watch, a voice to hear” The Scotsman ****

JACKSON ROY

Jackson Roy is an artist who can’t be pigeonholed in any one lane. Sitting in the sweetest spot between instantly accessible and intriguingly off-kilter, his songs swerve from brash indie-rock to tender alt-folk - often interspersed with intricate details and experimental sonic twists. But there’s consistency too, with the soaring falsetto of his voice exploring seesaw emotions and existential angst which both amplify his flair for the theatrical. This organic cocktail of the enticing and the unexpected is sure to win the south-east Londoner a first wave of acclaim with the upcoming release of his debut EP ‘Natural Cause’.

MR BEALE

Mixing field recordings collected on walks with a tonne of knotty rhythms and hooks, Mr. Beale’s tracks often feature hers or her mum’s clarinet. From a choral/classical background her style came together on a solo residency in Lapland in the Arctic. Severe isolation and dreamy landscapes shaped new instrumentals as she combined elements of a sound piece practice with jazz/experimental vocals. Her tracks are collages of emotions, relationships and of home: regular shape shifters moving between choppy and murky sounds with spider like guitars & drum beats that lean into slow melancholic crooning.