Amelia Coburn has shared new single ‘Sleepy Town’.
The songwriter has a remarkable sound, one that feels curiously out of step with her peers. Harking towards something ageless, Amelia’s work has the feeling of a Ben Myers novel – folk-derived, framed by tradition, but totally distinct.
Debut album ‘Between The Moon And The Milkman’ is out on March 8th, produced by Bill Ryder-Jones. The Wirral studio boffin is effusive in his praise of her work, commenting…
“I’ve never in my life worked with someone quite like Amelia and I still can’t quite put my finger on what she is! That’s a compliment by the way – she came in with these incredibly clever, moving songs that just blew me away… It would’ve taken me a day to record just her and her uke but she wanted a bigger sound, so we had a lot of playing around with these arrangements.”
New song ‘Sleepy Town’ is out now, flitting between the English folk songbook, aspects of Tom Waits, and even some instrumentation lifted from ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’.
Amelia Coburn comments…
“I hate staying in the same place for too long, and this track is about getting itchy feet and wanting to see the world. Although it has all the foundation of a country song, Bill pulled sonic inspiration from Velvet Underground’s ‘Venus in Furs’ (a band we both love!), which gives it true grit – see what I did there?”
Tune in now.
