New Single – “Dashboard Mary” – Modern Woman

UK art-rock band Modern Woman have just announced that the date for their much-anticipated debut album Johnny’s Dreamworld will be May 1st and will be on new label One Little Independent Records. They have also just released “Dashboard Mary”, the fantastic lead single from the record and their first since 2023’s “Achtung”.

”Dashboard Mary” captures the comedown following a feeling of escape, a gradually unfolding narrative that builds towards a rapturous climax. It is a slow-burning epic that begins with Sophie Harris’s vocals over sparse organ chords and builds as the rest of the band join before exploding into a squal of distorted guitar and the climactic cries of “I’m Not Coming Home”.

The quartet are made up of primary songwriter Sophie Harris (guitar/vocals), David Denver (violinist and composer), Juan Brint-Gutiérrez (bass) and Adam Blackhurst (drums). They have also released a video for “Dashboard Mary” and are heading off on a European tour in support of Ezra Furman. You can get tickets using this link.

Since their formation in London, Modern Woman have built a reputation for performances that blur the boundary between poetry and noise, commanding stages at End of the Road, Latitude, The Great Escape, and Green Man. Harris, a literature graduate, writes with a novelist’s precision and a performer’s urgency, while Denyer, Brint-Gutiérrez and Blackhurst bring the intensity of modern composition, jazz and punk backgrounds to the table. This year they signed to One Little Independent Records, the home of Björk, Crass, Laura Misch, Penelope Trappes, and more.

Johnny’s Dreamworld cements Modern Woman as one of the UK’s most distinctive new voices, a band intelligently and purposefully exploring the relationship between beauty and brutality.

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