She has also worked with TTNG (Sargent House) side-project The Otter Years, and Apidae (Dumont Dumont), and released a split single with US rising star Yvette Young, which tied in with a joint tour of California.
Her early career has seen her winning fans via self-releases including the “Houses” EP, and the aforementioned Delta Sleep hook-up. Influenced as a songwriter by eclectic artists including Jeffrey Lewis, Warpaint, Björk, Sufjan Stevens and TTNG, Natalie Evans has herself inspired comparisons with folk sensation and fellow harpist Joanna Newsom. I also enjoy the technical aspect of writing music that I find difficult to play – I like to challenge myself.
“ The style of guitar I play now probably comes from listening to a lot of emo and math rock as a late teenager, but even before then I liked to learn fingerpicking songs that used alternate tunings. I just feel it creates something fun ”, says Evans. “ I like putting pop-sounding, catchy vocals over more complicated guitar. A lo-fi intro of folk guitar and a single, unadorned vocal line blooms into a chorus of layered harmonies and warm, country-inflected electric guitar licks, as Evans reminisces on the puzzling emotions of youthful friendships and parties in years gone by. Like the last single, “Hard To Forget” boasts reverb-heavy percussion sounds created from stamping in the cavernous barn-turned-studio of producer Martin Ruffin, and the song continues the theme of nostalgia and night-time confidences that runs through the album as a whole. While winning new fans, Evans’s new material has also been met with excitement by existing followers of her work (which has included guest vocals on Delta Sleep’s “Camp Adventure” – a cult hit with more than 1.5 million Spotify plays).įusing her virtuosic talent on guitar, harp and piano with finely tuned songwriting sensibilities, Natalie Evans’s songs glow with a rare self-contained grace, as she wraps her minimalist and deceptively simple lyrical lines in winning hooks and harmonies. This track builds on the momentum of first single “In Trees”, which has gained 45,000 Spotify streams, radio support from BBC Introducing, and props from Clash, Women That Rock, Punktastic and beyond. “Hard To Forget” (out 2 nd March) is the second single from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natalie Evans ahead of her debut LP, which is due in May via Small Pond.
“Gorgeous” – WOMEN THAT ROCK …praise for previous single “In Trees”
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“In possession of both simplicity and delicacy in equal abandon” – GOD IS IN THE TV “She has the power to take you on a journey… beyond delightful” – WHEN THE HORN BLOWS “Beguiling, enveloping… her delicate yet empowered songwriting carries within in it deeply personal truths.” – CLASH Natalie Evans Unveils New Single “Hard To Forget”īetter At Night Due May 25th Via Small Pond Recsīeautiful” – ABBIE MCCARTHY (BBC INTRODUCING)
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