Natalie Wildgoose

"The slender piano line underpins a half-whispered incantation, with Natalie’s gentleness becoming her superpower… ‘Angel’ has a real intimacy – listening back to it, you can practically envisage her breath rising in clouds above the piano.” Clash

“Natalie Wildgoose is a name to pay attention to… stunning” Far Out Magazine

“For admirers of songwriters like Molly Drake, Sibylle Baier, or Angel Olsen…simultaneously haunting and beautiful.” The Line of Best Fit

“All of sacred winter’s ghostliness, with some of Molly Drake’s worthy magick to boot” Shindig!

““I’m a big fan of Natalie. This is really very special" Jericho Keys (BBC Introducing)

Coming ahead of a series of live dates that month - including supports for Chris Brain and a sold-out headline at London’s Servant Jazz Quarters - Yorkshire lo-fi folk artist Natalie Wildgoose shares her sophomore EP Come Into The Garden - out today (6th March).

Recalling the spectral crackles of Molly Drake, or the heart-wrenching intimacies of Josephine Foster and Clara Mann, Natalie Wildgoose’s ghostly take on folk tradition carries the powerful, rarefied qualities of an unearthed archive recording, so much so that you can almost blow the the dust from it. Writing and recording on various pianos across the Yorkshire Dales using her grandfather's old reel-to-reel tape recorder, Natalie’s work seeks to uncover the past; to reconnect with and capture the environments of the places and people that hold her.

Coming off the back of singles ‘Come Into The Garden’ and ‘Angel’, support for Natalie is only growing heading into EP 2, with praise arriving from the likes of Clash, The Line of Best Fit, Far Out, Shindig!, Hard of Hearing, The Most Radicalist and BBC Introducing. 

Marking the release of her EP, Natalie offers new single ‘Blackberries’/ It’s roots in both the collective memory of traditional folk song, and in the singer’s own reminiscences, neatly encapsulate the concerns of Come Into The Garden as a whole. Discussing the track, Natalie says:

"Blackberries grew from my playing around with an old traditional folk song called ‘The Blackest Crow’. It features Chester Caine on the acoustic guitar, who I loved collaborating on a few of the songs for the EP.  ‘Blackberries’ developed into a new idea shrouded in my own feelings of missing someone. In the song, I write what I see, where the deer bed down together in the grass, the crow flies in the dark grey skies, and how I miss being familiar with some other's breathing and warmth next to me.

More about Natalie Wildgoose:

Releasing her debut EP ‘First Birdsongs’ in 2023, and winding attention radio attention from BBC Radio 1, BBC 6Music (Introducing Mixtape), BBC Introducing and NTS, she has also performed with Tall Heights and Fiction Records’ Lily Lyons, as well as featuring at a showcase event for acclaimed independent fashion maker Rabbit Baby, alongside The Last Dinner Party and Aga Ujma.

Nominated for last year’s Green Man Rising Competition, Natalie has also played at Wilderness, How The Light Gets In, Roundhouse Rising festivals, performing at The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Academy of Arts, and at Abbey Road Studios for BBC Introducing Live. She also performs as part of folk-duo Wanderland.