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Currently based in Edinburgh, Victoria Hume was born in Brighton, raised in Dorset, studied in Oxford and spent several years working in London before relocating to Johannesburg in 2013, where she lived for nearly a decade. She self-released her debut album Limbs & Digits in 2009 and its follow-up Landing in 2012. The latter was championed by BBC 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne as “really beautiful”. he released new music as part of Koppies in 2021, with Chris Letcher and Matthew van der Want.

Victoria joined Lost Map in 2015 after her music was passed to label director Johnny Lynch via a mutual friend and collaborator, acclaimed singer-songwriter and producer Adem (Ilhan). She released her debut EP Closing in 2016 to acclaim from among others 6 Music’s Marc Riley, who invited Victoria on his show for a memorable live session. 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, and her musical and professional lives often intertwine with remarkable results.

An ambitious, inspiring and thought-provoking record unlike anything Lost Map has released before, Radical Abundance is Victoria’s latest album of absorbing atmospheric alt-folk songs, all about the dying days of capitalism and what might emerge next. Made with support from Creative Scotland, it’s inspired by the book Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel and based around interviews with Hickel as well as other activists and agitators seeking to steer the world away from a failing economic system that undermines all of our wellbeing. Radical Abundance was released on January 19, 2024 on limited-edition CD with handmade zine and digital platforms.

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