“BRILLIANT... A BIG FAVOURITE OF THE SHOW” – LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC 6 MUSIC
“GRACEFUL AND BEGUILING” ???? – THE SKINNY
Rozi Plain has been making music since her brother gave her a guitar when she was 16. Raised in Winchester, she spent a few years studying art and painting boats in Bristol, where she met long-term collaborators Kate Stables and Rachael Dadd, and where she made her first two albums. She has recently moved to London, and is set to release her third LP, Friend, in 2015.
Rozi's most recent offering, Joined Sometimes Unjoined, is made up of ten tracks of intoxicatingly sad and beautiful pop. Her songs are full of heartwrenching harmonies and they are dotted with unexpected instrumental flourishes that crash about and bring them to life. In 'Eating In Your House', the vocals climb out of a backdrop of muted guitars, handclaps and the occasional yelp. They rise out with melodies that draw you in. The sparseness of the half-mumbled lyrics means that there is always something hidden, like the discarded scraps of a torn up poem. The excruciatingly beautiful 'Take It' is somehow simultaneously brimming with sadness and optimism.
Her new single, 'Jogalong' feels like chasing birds barefoot in a dewy field, and in a stroke of onomatopoeic song-naming genius, could also be the soundtrack to Follow That Bus.
Rozi’s taken her joyous live show on the road around the Europe, the UK and the USA, and toured with an assortment of folk-mongers, from luminary, Devendra Banhart, to Lost Map’s very own starlet, The Pictish Trail.