ladylike

A blend of indie-rock, folk-rock, and all the good stuff in-between” Emily Pilbeam, BBC Radio 6 Music

“Emerging Artist” Glastonbury Festival

“unique and ambitious” The Line Of Best Fit

“fired up with the giddiness of pure adventure.” So Young Magazine

“ladylike show the value in taking your time, with songwriting this good it would be criminal to rush.” For The Rabbits

“Intriguingly reminiscent of the cooler edges of Big Thief’s music, ladylike bring a fresh perspective to the folk and post-rock genres, crafting music that is both evocative and entrancing.” Still Listening, Artists to Watch in 2024

“Counter Culture” Rough Trade

Releasing via Something. Records - the independent label responsible for early outings from recent risers No Windows and She’s In Parties - Brighton quartet ladylike share their first new music in 2024 with new single ‘Horse’s Mouth’ 

Treading a delicate tightrope between indie, post-rock and folk, ‘Horse’s Mouth’ - with it’s organic, ever-mutating song-structures, close-knit introspections and surging shoegaze rushes - spans a beguiling 4 minutes that are as obliquely abstract as they are desperately touching. 

Produced by the band’s own Spencer Withey at Brighton’s Farm Road Studios, this latest cut sustains the band’s intention to offer sparkling illuminations on the benign drudgeries of everyday twenty-something life via an enigmatic stream-of-consciousness approach to songwriting and lyricism. 

As vocalist/guitarist Georgia Butler notes: ‘Horse’s Mouth’ depicts the relentless work ethic of the modern day person through the narrative of an unnamed individual.“

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Self-releasing their debut single ‘Southbound’ last November after only a handful of Brighton shows; the band drew instant critical acclaim from UK tastemakers Emily Pilbeam (BBC Radio 6Music), The Line of Best Fit, So Young Magazine,  DIY, Rough Trade Counter Culture, Still Listening, For The Rabbits, and Hard of Hearing.

Since then, the quartet have won illustrious support slots with some of the UK’s most exciting new alternative bands. Touring with The Bug Club in February,  ladylike supported Lime Garden and Ugly at their respective landmark hometown headlines, also sharing stages with the likes of Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Van Houten and Divorce.

Earning a spot on this year‘s Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Shortlist, the band also reached the final of the  Green Man Rising 2024 competition, and performed at Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach alongside The Orchestra (For Now) and TTSSFU. Slots at the inaugural Brighton Psych Fest, as well as debut EU show  at Rotterdam’s Left Of The Dial (their first EU date) and Paris’ Supersonic already await the band for the remainder of 2024.