What's up with Penelope Isles releasing new music?
Cut your hair, and many more new music from up and coming group Penelope Isles
10/13/19 - Washington, D.C. @ DC9 - TICKETS
10/14/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts - TICKETS
10/16/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right - TICKETS
10/17/19 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott - TICKETS
10/19/19 - Toronto, ON @ Baby G - TICKETS
10/20/19 - Detroit, MI @ El Club - TICKETS
10/21/19 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle - TICKETS
10/22/19 - Minneapolis, MN @ Amsterdam - TICKETS
10/24/19 - Denver, CO @ Lost Lake - TICKETS
10/25/19 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court Gallery - TICKETS
10/28/19 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir - TICKETS
10/29/19 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret - TICKETS
10/30/19 - Seattle, WA @ Croc Café - TICKETS
11/01/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill - TICKETS
11/02/19 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues at the Voodoo Lounge - TICKETS
11/04/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo - TICKETS
UK-based quartet Penelope Isles, led by brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, have released "Cut Your Hair" from their forthcoming debut album Until the Tide Creeps In, due out this Friday, July 12th (tomorrow) on Bella Union. Flood premiered the song, saying: "...the five-minute slow-burner is its own unique brand of noisy pop, lurching along before opening up into a heavy, guitar-driven downpour." You can listen to the beautiful and spacious, slow burning jam HERE, and pre-order the album HERE. Additionally, the band is happy to reveal details for their first ever North American tour, taking place this fall. Full list of the band's dates to the right. Tickets will be available for purchase starting tomorrow, check it out HERE.
"Sweltering guitars scorch the earth [on 'Chlorine']... While summery synths and keys frolic in spaces left between the drum line and spiraling vocals, the riff phrases communicate nearly as much warmth and meaning as the lyrics do." - Stereogum
Formed around the chemistry between siblings and dual songwriters Jack and Lily Wolter, Until the Tide Creeps In is an album deepened by shared experience. Born in Devon and raised on the Isle of Man, the Wolters' bonds were strengthened by separation when Jack moved away to study art at university at 19, when Lily was 13. As he puts it, wryly, "By the time I moved home Lily was not so much of an annoying younger sister anymore and had grown up and started playing in bands and writing songs. We soon became very close. I had written some songs, so we started a band called Your Gold Teeth. We toured a bit and then Lily left for Brighton to study songwriting. A couple of years later I moved down and we started Penelope Isles together." For every sibling band forged in rivalry, many others mount an unassailable genetic argument for keeping the music in the family. The latter is assuredly the case with Penelope Isles, a quartet completed by Jack Sowton and Becky Redford.
Crisp and woozy, blissful and biting, Until the Tide Creeps In showcases the band's expansive DIY mix of translucent dream-pop, fuzz-rock guitars and indie-psych flushes comes lovingly dipped in exquisite harmonies and lustrous melodies: a combination so intuitive, you'd think it was in their blood.
