The Slow Country

Coinciding with their biggest headline shows to date in their twin homes of Manchester and London, Alt/Folk-rock newcomers The Slow Country share debut single ‘Walking Song’.

Chalking up numerous live shows across the UK in the past 12 months, a busy 2024 for The Slow Country’s has support slots for The Last Dinner Party, Pem, Mandrake Handshake, Trudy And The Romance and Mewn, a performance at Wilderness Festival this summer, and a collaboration with celebrated independent fashion designer Rabbit Baby. 

Capping all of this off is the release of a long-awaited debut. Entirely self-produced by the band themselves, and featuring artwork by Hugo Winder-Lind (The New Eves), ‘Walking Song’ drifts in some goth-tainted hinterland between Fleetwood Mac and Nick Cave where rushing violins and brooding vocals  pit earthly, home-knit aesthetics against the uncanny and mysterious.

Speaking about the track, the band say: “The song depicts a journey. Its narrator walks disoriented through a dream, visited by memories and self-doubt as they try to find a way home. It is a brooding folk-rock epic full of romantic symbolism and wailing vocals straddling nostalgia and dark futility”