2nd album, releasing on the 8th October 2022 - 10 original songs with trusty late grandfather's classical guitar, Ella Thea's voice and style has grown more confident and personal since the first folky album.

Play it by ear, or P.I.B.E, is an expression she uses often and is a philosophy and phrase passed onto her by her mother.

Honouring

The Ways Of You

8th May 2022

Out Of Place

Brian The messiah

See Me Hunched

Brother

Even in the ugliest suburban fringes, people find ways to inject a little beauty into their lives. And so it is with Motorway Footnote, a tale of building perennial expressions of being alive amongst the gray of an asphalt jungle through art, nature and keeping loved ones close. Taking inspiration from a caged bird going into spiritual flight, the ending is an epic, expansive and soaring prayer to joy. 

The song is the product of a collaboration between Dominic Johnson and Ella Thea, who met through the bustling open mic scene of East London before writing Motorway Footnote over cups of tea and chats about Pinegrove, PJ Harvey and The Avett Brothers.

Motorway Footnote

go on gentle 
go on kind
leave the past behind
be here with me 
be here now 
let go and allow it all to go on with the flow
breathe
let it in
breathe 
let it out
everything is gonna be ok

everything is gonna be ok

recorded outdoors in the UK in May 2025 with birds trains pangs and twangs

Kingfishers and Dragonflies

Here be some songs I have written and recorded over time.

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