LONDON-based four-piece Modern Woman have announced the release of their debut EP ‘Dogs Fighting In My Dream’, coming 17th September on End Of The Road Records, the recently launched label tied to the well-known boutique festival.
New single ‘Juniper’ has also arrived – a highly unique piece of music that uses a mixture folk sounds, DIY percussion and sparse electric guitar to create something entirely otherworldly and unpredictable. They’re a band who could nicely alongside bands like Black Country, New Road, Black Midi and Squid et al – lead singer Sophie Harris their main point of distinction with her delicate and eerie vocal delivery.
Pulling from a melting pot of influences such post-punk, 60s folk music, free-jazz and noise, the band create a diverse, ferociously experimental sound and ‘Juniper’ is a compelling introduction for those yet to be initiated.
“I am very interested in how nature is portrayed in art,” says the group’s Sophie Harris. “The idea of generations of lived time running as undercurrents throughout the natural landscape, and how this is reflected in us all individually in the rawest of human emotion. I’ve always been drawn to myths and folktales as stories that best express this. Lyrically, then, I like to explore this feeling through my own stories, and sometimes going as far as to contemporise myths or well-worn tales into a contemporary setting.”
On ‘Juniper’, she adds, “I wanted to write about the Juniper Tree tale but try to modernise it. I was always drawn to this tale and its depiction of the power of maternal longing, metamorphosis and sorrow.”
Listen below.
Photo credit: Ella Pavlides
