Nestled somewhere between primal rock'n'roll live performance and transcendent ritual, there's an unmistakable alchemy that happens when Violet Farrer (guitar, violin, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Kate Mater (bass, vocals) and Ella Oona Russell (drums, flute, vocals) step onto a stage together. Now, they've distilled this visceral energy into their extraordinary debut album The New Eve Is Rising: a lighting rod of inspiration channelled by a quartet with the ability to create something greater than the sum of their parts. The New Eve Is Rising was written in Brighton and at an artistic residency at The Cornish Bank, co-produced by The New Eves and Jack Osbourne (Bingo Fury) and recorded at Rockfield Studios and Bristol's Cotham Parish Church

We are delighted to announce that The New Eves’ debut album ‘The New Eve Is Rising’ is our album of the year in 2025. A record so original and unlike anything we’ve heard before that it’s hard to do justice in writing. From Brighton, Violet Farrer (guitar, violin, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Kate Mater (bass, vocals) and Ella Oona Russell make up the band. Along with a party of cello, guitar, violin, flute, drums and bass, their voices are the mightiest presence on the album – layered in call and response and harmonies to an immense effect. The Swedish tradition of kulning, a female-led vocal technique used to communicate together and call cattle across the mountains, influenced their style and the results are magnificent.

If you don’t know them yet, this punk-folk act will likely become your new favourite band.

By Martha