If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by Bill Callahan, Eric Bibb, The Delines, Valerie Smith and Brown Horse among others – as always we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to. For this month’s supporters giveweay we have a pair of tickets to see singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy live whose new album These Frightening Machines lands today via Cooking Vinyl. The new record follows Priddy’s highly acclaimed debut The Eternal Rocks Beneath and sophomore LP The Pendulum Swing which firmly established her as one of the most exciting artists on the contemporary British music scene.
In celebration of the new album release, Priddy will take to the road in April and May for a lengthy UK headline tour. Speaking about These Frightening Machines, Priddy shared: “If the first album was for building a foundation, and the second album was about reinforcing what I’d already begun, the third album felt to me like a chance to be bolder, push out and try something new.”
Produced by Rob Ellis (P J Harvey, Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull, Bat for Lashes) and recorded at The Glaucus House, Middle Farm Studios in rural Devon, These Frightening Machines was written over the course of a year as Priddy made the transition from her 20s to her 30s. She consciously kept an open mind during the making of the album, focussed purely on being creative, and determined to let the songs find their own form.
“At its core,” added Priddy, “I think These Frightening Machines explores the ever shifting relationship I have with my sense of self as a woman, my body and my place in the world as a 30 year old artist – but I’d like to think that whilst the songs are born from personal experience, the feelings expressed are widely relatable.”
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Katherine Priddy UK Headline Tour Dates:
Thu Apr 16 – Stroud The Sub Rooms
Fri Apr 17 – Brighton St George’s Church
Sat Apr 18 – Southampton Papillon
Sun Apr 19 – Cambridge Junction 2
Mon Apr 20 – Norwich Arts Centre
Wed Apr 22 – Bristol St George’s
Thu Apr 23 – London Union Chapel
Fri Apr 24 – Nottingham Metronome
Sat Apr 25 – Liverpool Tung Auditorium
Sun Apr 26 – Leeds Howard Assembly Room
Tues Apr 28 – Oxford Holywell Music Room
Wed Apr 29 – Manchester Stoller Hall
Thu Apr 30 – Edinburgh Pleasance
Fri May 1 – Gateshead Glasshouse Sage Two
Sat May 2 – Barnsley Birdwell Venue
Sun May 3 – Pocklington Arts Centre
Tue May 5 – Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre
Wed May 6 – Milton Keynes The Stables
Thu May 7 – Exeter Phoenix
Fri May 8 – Cardiff The Gate
Sat May 9 – Birmingham Town Hall
