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Release Date Friday 14th November 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Gilles Peterson-championed cinematic maestro SHOLTO returns with his third
album in three years
Following the epic, sprawling odyssey of 2024's double album 'Letting Go of Forever',
his new project 'The Sirens' builds upon the groove- rooted, string- soaked
dreamscapes and ethereal textures upon which he's built his name, this time inverting
the beauty into a haunting fever dream. Deeply cinematic at its core, the albums'
tender jazz harmonisations flow into a moving undercurrent of strings and harp,
anchored by SHOLTO's rhythmic sensibility and dramatic vocal cues that drift in and
out across the record's 12- tracks, capturing the essence of Sirens like dream
sequences caught mid- thought. The record is emotionally unflinching, exploring
themes of duality, temptation, and emotional dislocation, in SHOLTO's words "blurring
grief with groove, seduction and surrender".
Using the world of myth and the carnivalesque as a vehicle for exploring the
intricacies of the human condition, 'The Sirens' emerged from a space of uncertainty
and spiritual fatigue for SHOLTO. Drawing from ancient allegory to navigate his inner
turbulence, the album is grounded in quiet defiance and tension that sometimes never
quite resolves. Created once again in the fertile, creative hub of SHOLTO's SFJ studio
in Hackney, the album reunites a familiar cast of musical characters, giving voice to
the community feel and cohesive sound world he's building. The core of the SHOLTO
sound is here, with Syd Kemp returning on bass, Clementine Brown on strings and
Rachel Horton Kitchlew on harp.
Tracks: Smooth Sailing (Ft. Phoebe Coco) / Persephone's Perception / El Faro /
Tied to the Mast / Drowning in You (Interlude) / Ghibli's Dream / Temptress (Ft. Tom
McBrien) / Lamia / Purple Flow / On the Rocks / Swampland of The Soul / Invisible
Conductor of The Orchestra (Come with Me) (Ft. Lea Petges)
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