Pem today announces her new EP, Cloud Work, set for release June 7th on Fascination Street Records. The Bristol-based artist also shares her enchanting new single Grips. The EP is produced by the acclaimed Ali Chant (Sorry, Katy J Pearson, Portishead) and to celebrate its release, Pem will headline The Lexington in London on 14th June. Pem has been garnering recognition for her silencing live performances, receiving long listings for 2023’s Glastonbury Emerging Talent and Green Man Rising competitions and securing support slots with The Last Dinner Party, The New Eves and Mary in the Junkyard. Recent single awe drew coverage from So Young Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, Emily Pilbeam on BBC 6Music, Radio X’s John Kennedy and many more. The single was also included in over a dozen Spotify playlists, including New Music Friday UK, and landed Pem the cover of Melomania and Fresh Finds Folk.
New single Grips is wistful and playful, it’s about all the daydreams and fantasies that brought momentary relief from the challenges and responsibility Pem was experiencing during a period looking after her ill father.
On the new single, Pem says:
“A song about wanting to hold on tightly to other people to escape and “forget” everything else for a while. It is inspired by my favourite song ‘Forget About’ by Sybille Baier.“
Cloud Work is a collection of five songs that Pem wrote during an intensely challenging chapter in her life. Full of references to water, sky, flight, memory, and birds, these are the metaphors and symbols that helped her work through the grief of losing her father last year. She says, “the process of creating ‘cloud work’ enabled me to find beauty, meaning and comfort in a very difficult time.”
1. gulls
2. awe
3. grips
4. gut jealth
5. martin pêcheur
Pem’s Live Dates
27th April | London, UK – Sebright Arms, supporting Mylar
13th May | Manchester, UK – Mood Swings – YES (Basement)
18th May | Brighton, UK – The Great Escape
14th June | London, UK – The Lexington
30th June | Bristol, UK – Bristol Sounds Festival
21st Sepember | Bristol, UK – Dareshack
Photo credit – Genevieve Reeves