1st Bath

Hollow Ponds

Buy on Bandcamp

Everything's A System, Everything's A Sign

We Are Sound

Out on Double Six / Domino on iTunes: http://bit.ly/1nDbQ1d

All We Are

Feel Safe

I Want To See You Dance

Stop Playing With My Heart

Not Far To Go

Up Against A Wall

Told You So

After "Theater Island," last year's 6-track EP, Sóley returns with her first full-length, an album full of rhythmic makeshift creatures, of handclaps hidden in the undergrowth, tempting us to join in. The 13 tracks are sometimes incredibly catchy; amazingly quirky at other times: think cardigan-folk from the northern hemisphere, an ocean of stained glasses bopping up and down in the shared apartment's dishwater, leeward in limbo. The result is refreshing in its lack of edginess; think Joanna Newsom minus her harp, or the Casady sisters circa 2004, but then clearly better trained, less crooked. In other words: her voice, those loops moving around like wooden toys, and finally the piano – that's the backbone, the essence of her compositions; at least until some unexpected element appears elsewhere, a rhythmic creaking or the lack thereof, like a hidden Rube Goldberg machine, setting off yet another component, thus paving the way across the threshold and on into the next realm of sound. And thus we keep on sinking, deeper and deeper, until we stand on terra firma once again, realizing that somehow, next to us, above us, around us, a beat is laid out, hesitantly moving along at first, then careering… 

Sóley: I'll Drown

This is a reworking of the track from 2007’s ‘Strangely Familiar For All The Right Reasons’. 
With some synth reworking and added vocals. However, all the guitar work is my original playing from 18 years ago. 
The title comes from often swing this guy at the bus stop in London. Perhaps in his late 40s. Scruffy. Not homeless, but unable or unwilling to look after himself properly.  He’d be stood there, punching numbers into an oversized calculator every time a bus came and went. Never, not once, did I see him ever get on any bus. 
With the vocals and detuned vocoder…. In 2025 it’s become a story of unrequited love between an infatuated woman and a man too busy and connected to tech to notice.

Man With A Calculator

Sweet September Rain

All songs written by Eliza Shaddad
Recorded at Deep Litter Studios, Devon
Engineered by Andrew Bond
Produced by Chris Bond
Mixed by Catherine Marks
Mastered by John Davis

2015

Wars

Alaska

All Your Words Are Gone

Bon Iver - "Holocene"

How to Get Away with Murder

All the Other Girls

Off the debut LP titled "Hazel", out June 11th 2013 on Gold Robot Records as a limited edition 12" record.  (Pre)Order here - http://tinyurl.com/c96ewyt

Hazel

Maze

Young Hunting - Maze

Up Against A Wall

Avid Dancer

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