Modern Woman: Daniel
(One Little Independent Records)
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Modern Woman are back again as they release their third single of the year, simply entitled Daniel. This is a song which focuses very much on the melodious side of their craft with a sound framed with a haunting, acoustic and intensely melodramatic vibe.
London art-rock outfit Modern Woman are a band with a strong penchant for the unpredictable as they explore the boundaries where noise collides with melody, as if to reach emotional depths which may have been previously unchartered. And this approach is really testing the waters as they continue with their series of single releases each month this year. And now we are into March, their third single, Daniel, filters through the airwaves with a sonic shift very much towards melody and sentimentality.
Daniel is a new take on a song which first appeared on their debut vinyl EP, Dogs Fighting In My Dream, back in 2021 so has already been road-tested and will be familiar to their fans.
Daniel certainly reveals a much starker and intimate side of singer and primary songwriter Sophie Harris’s talents which will undoubtedly prove to be one of the quieter and more personal moments from the forthcoming album, Johnny’s Dreamworld. This album has already been recorded and is set to be unleashed in May 2026. Dominated by Sophie’s beautiful, raw and somewhat ethereal vocals, a feeling also conveyed through the accompanying video, it’s a song accompanied only by her own acoustic guitar and David Denyer’s haunting violin, all of which coalesces into an poignant and highly sensitive tale.
As Sophie explains, “I wrote this in North Wales a long time ago. It’s a simple song. I hope it captures some sort of spirit-feeling. I was camping near a lake we used to go to all the time as a kid when I wrote it. I really love David’s violin on this, creating sounds like the tapping of rigging on boats etc. We kept the recording sparse.”
Following an extensive run of dates in the UK and Europe supporting Ezra Furman, Modern Woman have some further live dates in the UK and Europe, including the album launch which will be held at The Lexington in London. The dates are as follows:
March
28 – Beat Connection, Reading
April
11 – Outertown Festival, Bristol
May
06 – The Lexington, London (Album Launch)
07 – FOCUS Wales, Wrexham
16 – Leeds – In Colour Festival
23 – Wanderlust Festival, Southampton
July
04 – Vida Festival, Catalonia (Spain)
August
01 – Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire
21 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK
September
04 – End of the Road Festival, Dorset, UK
You can buy tickets for the live dates here.
You can stream the single here.
You can pre-order the album here.
You can find Modern Woman on Facebook, Instagram, Bandcamp and their website.
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All words by Ian Corbridge. You can find more of his writing at his author profile here.
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