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01 Howl

Here’s Strange Brew #322 - Old Note - from 18/11/22 with gugai on 8radio.com - Dane Terry tells me about a song he loves with music from Anna Mieke, Mike Stevens & The Ghasts, The Golden Dregs, Phoebe Bridgers, Soda Blonde, Aoife Nessa Frances, ARXX, Lisa O’Neill and Jape
 
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Strange Brew #322 Old Note

UK vs UK: A Friendly Exhibition

Anthony Kasper - Life Ain't Perfect (Preview)

𝔾𝕀𝕍𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕄𝕐 𝕃𝕀𝔽𝔼 𝔸𝕎𝔸𝕐

‘Effboy’ features a relentless acoustic guitar and heavy beats accented by rolling sub-bass underpin the track. It examines how ‘everyday’ misogyny provides a cover and permission for the kind of deep misogyny that leads men to hurt and assault and exploit and coerce women.

Effboy

Eliza and her band continue to joyfully trespass across the carefully tended genre boundaries of indie, gothic folk, and progressive art rock, whilst Eliza’s stunning vocals tell stories written in blood and shadows. 
With this new single Eliza and the band establish a more vivid and untamed direction for the music – revealing more starkly the darkly poetic lyricism of Eliza’s mesmerising vocal performance.  All set against the lush percussive rhythms of drummer Tim Skinner, and the rich textures of cellist Eva Wright and guitarist Jacob Browne.
As Eliza explains, “this is the sort of song you don’t just sing…you howl!”.
From the opening plucked arpeggios on the guitar and shimmering gong, Look At Me immediately demands our attention.  As the song unfolds into a deceptively jaunty rhythm masquerading as a circus-style waltz, Eliza draws the listener in with a sing-song invitation that feels strangely unsettling before breaking into a wildly emphatic chorus declaring that you can “drink your blood, and then repent”.  The song builds to a ferocious climax in which Eliza’s defiance is captured in the repeated phrase “don’t follow me.”  Fear has been banished, and the darkness has been made a friend.


Look at Me

The third track on Rent-o-Kill - a 3-song ep released on tape cassette in 1986. 
 Recorded at Purple Rain Studio in Norfolk, UK.  Audio engineer Richard Hammerton.

Madigan:
Simon Delf - vocals
Mandy Cran - trumpet and vocals
Adam Greenwold - lead guitar
Jason Delf - bass guitar
Jeff Brown - drums

Piece of the Action

The second track on Rent-o-Kill - a 3-song ep released on tape cassette in 1986.  Recorded at Purple Rain Studio in Norfolk, UK.  Audio engineer Richard Hammerton.

Madigan:
Simon Delf - vocals
Mandy Cran - trumpet and vocals
Adam Greenwold - lead guitar
Jason Delf - bass guitar
Jeff Brown - drums

Life's Ugly

Title track from a 3-song ep released on tape cassette in 1986.  Recorded at Purple Rain Studio in Norfolk, UK.  Audio engineer Richard Hammerton.

Madigan:
Simon Delf - vocals
Mandy Cran - trumpet and vocals
Adam Greenwold - lead guitar
Jason Delf - bass guitar
Jeff Brown - drums

Rent-o-Kill

Complicated Mathematics

Second single release from the forthcoming new album.  An infectiously catchy slice of indie folk noir pop!

Twine

Debut single "Nothing" releases 5/2/25 on all streaming platforms.

Nothing

Sick Rooms session with Ali McMordie, Sammy Forway and Brian Korteling

Fool Again

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Eliza Delf & The Wilderness continue to joyfully trespass across the carefully tended genre boundaries of indie, gothic folk, and progressive art rock, whilst Eliza’s stunning vocals tell stories written in blood and shadows.

Twine

Eliza Delf & The Wilderness

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