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Annie Hart is best known as one-third of Au Revoir Simone, the beloved all-female synth trio that counts David Lynch as a superfan. But with the eight tracks on her solo debut, “Impossible Accomplice” (Instant Records, September 15), Annie will emerge as an electrifying artist and producer in her own right. Her live show is filled with lush synthesizer sounds and captivating intimate vocals, and has been known to leave her audience in a trance.

During the band’s hiatus, she has been crafting pop songs on classic synthesizers, with a less-is-more approach, writing and engineering the record on her own in the basement of her Brooklyn home, sneaking sessions in while her children were sleeping. Greatly influenced by the spare synthesizer sounds of Laurie Spiegel and the post-punk sensibility of artists like Tubeway Army, Annie has embraced her love of meticulously crafting the perfect tone to match the emotion of a song. “Be it melancholy, longing, happiness or simple desire, there is no better way to explain my innermost world than by going past words and into the intuitive and visceral feeling that a particular sound can evoke.”

In songs such as the first single, “Hard To Be Still” (featured on an upcoming episode of Netflix series, Gypsy, starring Naomi Watts), Annie cuts back the layers to reveal a rawer version of the dreamy synth pop her band was famous for forging. Solo, Annie has opened for artists such as M. Ward and Neko Case, and will be playing a handful of shows this summer in support of the new record.

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“Alluringly sensual…both intimate and majestic.”- BlackBook

Raia Was is a vocalist and composer creating electronic music born of improvisation. She recently debuted ‘Reprise’ the first single from her upcoming album Body Double, completed in collaboration with producer Autre Ne Veut and establishing the haunting sense of color and space that places her in unique context amongst artists like Banks, Portishead and James Blake.

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Having been touring since her teens, Harkin’s reputation as an in-demand multi-instrumentalist has seen her pass through 30 countries, whilst writing and releasing three critically-acclaimed records with her own band Sky Larkin. Her work garnered the attention of friends and fellow former Leeds dwellers Wild Beasts, with whom she worked across their Smother tour, and reverberated across the pond to urgent cult trio Sleater-Kinney, who recruited her as a touring member upon their triumphant return to the live stage. Shortly after relocating to upstate NY from her native UK, Harkin was asked to join the touring band behind Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett (dates start fall 2017). 

Now, though – as she unveils her debut solo project – the collaborator steps out as the singular; her new set-up giving further platform to her idiosyncratic, muscular guitar-playing and revealing a body of work which is equally propelled by a life on the move and anchored by her romance for the North of England.

Having begun writing her new material while holed up in New York against the backdrop of a polar vortex, Harkin’s work is, in part, coloured by her external geography. She spent three years living in England’s wild Peak District National Park whilst developing her solo project. The park’s surrounding moors form a stark and unparalleled backdrop to her writing, yet lie within arm’s reach of the underground music scenes of Sheffield and Leeds, dual inspirations for work that is both introspective and expansive. The personal and the global play out against each other, wryly observed and digested in songs that are striking and disarming, and intimate without being permissive.