Meet the newest addition to the Lost Map label roster: Johannesburg-based English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume. Her stunning Closing EP will be our first release of the new year, arriving on January 15, 2016 on limited-edition CD and as a digital download (pre-order here for just £6.99). The title track ‘Closing’ is available to stream and share now, below ...
Victoria will launch the EP with a show at The Gladstone in London on Sunday, January 17. It's free, so none of your usual "ooh I spent all my Christmas money on scratch cards and dried fruit and ceramic dogs" pish.
RELEASED: 15TH JANUARY 2016
LIMITED EDITION CD, IN CUT-COVER SLIPCASE - LIMITED TO 300 COPIES.
Lost Map Records are delighted to introduce a new addition to the label roster in Johannesburg-based English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume. Her stunning Closing EP is available now, on limited-edition CD, with cut-cover slipcase, and inner sleeve artwork by Emma Hunter.
Consisting of seven sparse, wintry songs of fluttering piano and strings, bright guitars and beautifully naturalistic vocals, Closing EP arrived at Lost Map's door after it was passed to The Pictish Trail by his partner-in-spandex Adem of (Silver Columns). Adem had worked with Victoria on her 2013 project Delirium, a cycle of songs themed around the complex hallucinations patients have been known to experience during hospital-based intensive care (outside of music, Victoria works as an arts manager in health and medicine and as a researcher). It features a whole bunch of Victoria's London and Johannesburg-based musician pals, including sometimes Bat for Lashes and Phil Selway collaborator Quinta, South African songwriter and composer Chris Letcher (Victoria’s husband) and Andy Hamill, who has worked with Mercury Prize nominee Eska among many others. It's a bliddy lovely listen, we're sure you'll agree. We can't wait to let you hear more of it - watch this space as ever.