Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte and Christian Lee Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records on 21 August 2026.

Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.

“Oh and the way that it feels

To know you

Oh and the way it reveals

I don’t know you”

So begins The Way That It Feels, the concluding track of Moss’ debut full-length album. In two couplets, sung over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over the rest of the song.

Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something unknowable just beyond.

‘With shades of Joanna Newsom‘s dynamic originality, Moss has a stark subtlety that bowls you over in its intensity’ – CLASH

Special guest is Matthew Herd. Matthew Herd is a Scottish songwriter and saxophonist living in east London.

This show takes place at Low Four – a recording studio situated on Deansgate Mews in the Great Northern warehouse. This intimate venue features a fully stocked Cloudwater bar.

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