Opening track of the upcoming 'Young And Free' EP (release date: 31 July)

I Am Here

All Your Time For Me

Thought Train

Waiting Is What I Do

Meant To Be

Ordinary Life

Not Alone, Not Afraid

Ben Oni

In-Between Road

How You Save Me

Taryn Leia Prescott is an unsigned indie singer-songwriter. With her quirky lo-fi instrumentation, defiantly heart-felt lyrics, and biblical themes, her music stands in the vein of indie folk artists such as Mumford & Sons, Sufjan Stevens, Iron & Wine, Brooke Fraser and Jon Foreman.

Taryn grew up in South India, before studying English Literature in Delhi. She now lives in Cambridge where she is married to Peter, whom she has known since age thirteen. In an era when many in the music industry are worried about the effects of file-sharing and unpaid downloads, Taryn is notable for making all of her music available for free as a gift.

Taryn began writing songs when she was about 7, sang her first concert as a backing vocalist with her father's rock band when she was 11, and started teaching herself the guitar and taking piano classes when she was 12. But it wasn't until 2011 that she began recording her own music. Songs of the Bride, Taryn’s first release, was recorded in the week of Prince William’s Royal Wedding and came out of her own experience of marriage. But Taryn says the album is “less about either of these love stories than about the cosmic love story of a divine Bridegroom who paid the highest price to win back a wayward bride”.

Her second release, the Young and Free EP, takes the exploration of those themes of love and longing in a fresh direction. Still drawing inspiration from the twists and turns of her relationship with teenage-sweetheart and now-husband Peter, Taryn here casts a nostalgic eye back to the years before marriage, and the resulting collection of songs is an unabashedly enjoyable tribute to young love.

The Micah Pact EP is the third and final instalment in her trilogy of 2011 releases. Taryn says that she wrote these songs "in an attempt to grapple with suffering, both my own and others’". And in them she deals with some quite weighty themes: divorce, fatherlessness, loneliness, broken families, disease, poverty, untimely death. The name of the EP, 'The Micah Pact', is a double entendre. It names her younger brother Micah and the orphans at the PACT (Project for AIDS Care & Training) Hospice in Chennai, to whom the songs are dedicated, while also standing as a resolution -- a pact with God, if you like -- to live out the challenge of the biblical prophet Micah: "to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God". 

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