Hannah Rose Platt is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and storyteller who merges the sinister authorial prowess of Nick Cave and Tom Waits with the gilded Americana of Bobbie Gentry and Emmylou Harris.
Platt was born and raised in Liverpool, where she wrote her first songs and played her first shows and is now based in London and Bristol after working hard to become an established figure on the UK music scene. She recorded her debut offering ‘Portraits’ in Nashville, where she worked with some of the industry's leading names, Grammy award-winning musicians Mark Fain, (Ricky Skaggs, Dolly Parton) Stuart Duncan (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss) and Andrea Zonn (James Taylor). ‘Portraits’ was released independently to widespread critical acclaim, receiving 5star and 4star reviews across the board after which, she was invited to legendary BBC broadcaster Bob Harris’ home to record a live session for his ‘Under the Apple Tree’ YouTube channel.
Championed by broadcasters Sid Griffin, Baylen Leonard, and Ralph McLean, Hannah has also had TV sync success with several tracks used for Channel 4, and considerable airplay on BBC, national, and international radio; she has also performed live on BBC One. Platt has toured extensively across the UK, Europe, and the USA, both as a headline act, and opening for artists such as Frank Turner, BJ Barham, and The Long Ryders. She recently signed to Netherlands-based label ‘CRS/Continental Records’, who released her critically acclaimed second offering ‘Letters Under Floorboards’. She is now set to release her third record, a brand-new concept album of ghostly folk/rock narratives produced by the illustrious Ed Harcourt.
Polly Paulusma follows up her critically-acclaimed 2021 album ‘Invisible Music’ with ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’ (Wild Sound/OLI 2022), affectionately shortened to ‘Pivot’, which marks a return to her singular brand of insightful songs that, in their subject matter, roam around the badlands of love, sex and parenthood, death and grief, failure and success, violence and healing.
’Pivot’ is the fifth studio album — and the ninth release — from this growing indie-folk legend, whose thought-provoking albums since 2004’s ’Scissors In My Pocket’ (OLI 2004) have earned her plaudits from international champions as far flung as Nic Harcourt at KCRW in LA and Michele Manzotti in Italy — as well as homegrown accolades from Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2) and The Guardian.
She is also a producer and label founder — her own label Wild Sound released records from nine other artists before becoming a folk imprint at OLI in 2016. Her songs are marked by intelligent lyrics and surprising melodic turns, and this new album features cowrites with Kathryn Williams, David Ford and the novelist Laura Barnett.
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