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Winners of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing new music creators, The Little Unsaid spent 2017 /2018 travelling the UK and Europe, leaving audiences emotionally rapt with a live show that's been described as a thumping depth of passion, recalling the intensity and melancholic overtones of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.

Signed to Reveal Records (home of Lau, Eddi Reader, Kris Drever, Joan As Police Woman) the band issued a compilation 'Selected Works' to bring all the new listeners up to speed with their catalogue. The band have since been busy creating 'Atomise', their new studio album due for release in May. Led by Yorkshire-born songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Elliott, The Little Unsaid have a rigorous work ethic and a genre-spanning approach to song-writing that embraces elements of electronica, folk, jazz and alt-rock. Their live shows are highly emotive unique experiences, a world class band not to be missed.

The Little Unsaid release their new album Atomise on May 24th 2019 via Winners of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing new music creators, The Little Unsaid spent 2017 /2018 travelling the UK and Europe, leaving audiences emotionally rapt with a live show that's been described as a thumping depth of passion, recalling the intensity and melancholic overtones of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen.

The twelve new songs by this London/Aarhus based alt-folk-leftfield rock band reflect upon an atmosphere of division and unrest that has crept into everyday life, but John Elliott's lyrics seek to explore those little pools of light in the darkness; moments of real connection, meaning and magic amidst the chaos.


Atomise was written during the summer of 2018, Elliott shutting himself away from the outside world in a remote rural Pembrokeshire cottage where he recorded rough demos of the entire album on an old upright piano. These demos were later taken to the band's North London studio where Tim Heymerdinger played drums and Elliott added further instrumentation with recording engineer Sonny Johns (Fatoumata Diawara, Portico Quartet) at the helm. Many of Elliott's original skeletal demos were maintained in the final recording sessions as their distinct solitary mood - complete with creaking piano keys and nearby birdsong - had captured something very special. The Little Unsaid violist Alison D'Souza assembled a string quartet in Stoke Newington's 16th century church to lay down the string parts on Atomise and the final mix was created in Oxford by composer and orchestrator Graeme Stewart, whose credits include film music with Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead).

Praise for The Little Unsaid:

'Entrancingdeeply atmosphericsongwriting of a real rich quality, all held together by an intensity of approach, by a focus on the emotional weight music can carry'

Clash Magazine

'The first thing you notice about these songs is their emotional honesty. Elliott writes about mental illness from the point of view of someone who has lived through it and come out the other side, someone who is acutely aware of how close he still is to his demons. But his songs are full of hope, full of the potential for a better future despite the continued proximity of depression.'

ALBUM OF THE MONTH - FRUK
Folk Radio U.K.

'Extraordinary music. This is an amazing act'
Bob Harris

'A brave and often brilliant collection'
R2 Magazine (on Selected Works)

Winners of the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award for boundary-pushing new music
Founded by Gilles Peterson, with support from Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and PRS Foundation

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12-14 Rendezvous Street,

Folkestone,

Kent,

England,

CT20 1EZ.