Penelope Isles share new single “Round” taken from upcoming debut album “Until The Tide Creeps In”
Up-and-coming Brighton, UK four-piece Penelope Isles recently announced their remarkable debut album Until the Tide Creeps In, out on Bella Union on July 12th. Following the album’s first track “Chlorine,” the brother/sister centric band shares another great song off the record entitled “Round.” “It’s a love song – a collection of moments and thoughts of what it’s like to be in love,” explains the band’s Jack Wolter who self-produced the album. “All the beautiful moments and all the difficult times too. Going round full circle. The verses are like the beautiful times that we will always remember where the chorus is the truth of how it’s not always that easy.”
Formed around the chemistry between siblings and dual songwriters Jack and Lily Wolter, Until the Tide Creeps Inis 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 Sowtonand Becky Redford.
Crisp and woozy, blissful and biting, Until the Tide Creeps In is an album deepened by shared experience: experiences of, in Jack’s words, “leaving home, moving away, dealing with transitions in life and growing up. We are six years apart, so we had a different experience of some of this, but we share a similar inspiration when writing music.”
Until the Tide Creeps In is released 12th July via Bella Union. Album artwork, tracklisting and upcoming UK live performances below:
Saurday 4th May – Liverpool – Liverpool Sound City
Sunday 5th May – Manchester – Sounds From The Other City
Tuesday 7th May – Paris – Le Supersonic
Thursday 9th May – Brighton – The Great Escape
Friday 10th May – Brighton – The Alternative Escape
Saturday 11th May – The Great Escape
Thursday 16th May – FOCUS Wales
Friday 24th May – Amsterdam – London Calling
Saturday 15th June – Maastricht – Transformer Festival
Tuesday 25th June – Kiel – FahrradKinoKombinat
Wednesday 26th June – Berlin – Urban Spree
Sunday 30th June – Offenbach – Hafen 2
Saturday 6th July – Six Fours Les Plages – Festival Pointu
Friday 26th July – Topcliffe – Deer Shed Festival
Sunday 11th August – Cornwall – Boardmasters
Friday 16th August – Breacon Beacons – Green Man Festival
Saturday 17th August – Hasselt – Pukkelpop
Sunday 22nd September – Rotterdam – V11
Tuesday 24th September – Frankfurt – The Cave
Wednesday 25th September – Dresden – Ostpol
Thursday 26th September – Leipzig – Nochbesserleben
Sunday 29th September – Karlsruhe – P8
Saturday 9th November – Reykjavik – Iceland Airwaves
Monday 25th November – Guildford – The Boileroom
Tuesday 26th November – Cambridge – Portland Arms
Wednesday 27th November – Oxford – The Jericho Tavern
Thursday 28th November – Leeds – Hyde Park Book Club
Friday 29th November – Dublin – Whelan’s
Sunday 1st December – Newcastle – Cluny 2
Monday 2nd December – Glasgow – Hug & Pint
Tuesday 3rd December – York – The Fulford Arms
Wednesday 4th December – Leicester – The Cookie
Thursday 5th December – London – Oslo Hackney
Friday 6th December – Bristol – Rough Trade Bristol
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