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Described as 'like a young Billie Holiday gate-crashing a Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones recording session', or 'a moody Mary Margaret O'Hara', blues and roots duo Ma Polaine's Great Decline continue to build a reputation as an intriguing and hard to pigeon-hole act.
 
Ma Polaine launch a new album in 2020 and are touring across the UK. The band's first single 'Morphine' kicked off the New Year with a bang, with widespread radio play including BBC Radio 2 The Blues Show Cerys Matthews.
 
Writing together since 2011, the duo sought to keep their song-writing influences open, and have created a sound with oddness, sparsity and a subtle quality that is their own. Beth's voice has been likened to a slice of lemon in a good G+T, Fatea Magazine called it 'dynamic, vibrant, sultry and, at times, pulsating', and it is her vocal and evocative lyrics coupled with Clinton's understated guitar that underpin the songs.
 
2018 album release The Outsider was played on Tom Robinson's BBC 6 show, Verity Sharp's Late Junction and on BBC Radio 2 & 3 and led to a feature on the band in fRoots magazine.
2016's EP release Small Town Talk gained rave media reviews, building on 2015's nomination as an emerging artist in the British Blues Awards for the album 'Got Me Out Of Hell', also winning a Reveal Records emerging act competition, and earning an international song-writing semi-final spot for Suffer It Well from 2013 EP of the same name.
 
BBC Radio 2 The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews : 'If that's a taste of things to come from their new album 'City of Love', I can't wait!'.... 'I love it'
 
fRoots: 'think a moody Mary Margaret O'Hara...'
 
The Morning Star:
'each songs beguiles with its uniquely absorbing multilayered musical ambiance'.
 
Fatea Magazine: 
'...a record of profound maturity'...' Beth has a voice of rare beauty; dynamic, vibrant, sultry and, at times, pulsating'...' The Outsider is an album to be relished, the aural delights proffered are plentiful and compelling, with a mark of individuality that is refreshing'.
 
Roots Music Report: 
'one compelling and unique musical presence'.
 
Liverpool Sound and Vision: 
'The Outsider is a series of continuing brilliance to which cannot be contained or pigeon holed'.
 
Folking.com: 
'If you've ever felt that the whole world is cross-threaded, The Outsider is your kind of record'.
 
Blues in Britain: 
'haunting and compelling'.
 
Maverick Magazine:
"quite different to anything out there right now".

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12-14 Rendezvous Street,

Folkestone,

Kent,

England,

CT20 1EZ.