Fast-emerging British singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Frater-Taylor is widely regarded as a virtuosoguitarist and a vocalist with a powerful emotional range and depth.

Her 2021’s self-produced album ‘Bloom’ garnered in excess of 3 million streams, was nominated at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards and made revered US radio station KCRW’s Albums Of The Year list. She played over 60 shows across Europe with her trio in 2022 before heading into the studio to write her newalbum, capturing the band’s energy and chemistry.

Drawing influence from the likes of PJ Harvey, through Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, to the rockier roster -where John Mayer, Meshell Ndegeocello, St Vincent and Madison Cunningham hold court, Frater-Taylor’s upcoming album ‘Featherweight’ will be released on Cooking Vinyl in Feb 2024. The record marks a stylisticshift, deftly blurring the boundaries between rock, alt pop, neo soul, new-school jazz and folk whilsttackling an array of themes including self-reflection, vulnerability and anger. Lead single ‘Hold The Weight’ ,an ethereal, angular guitar jam suffused with rage, describes the feeling when no amount of words can bearthe burden of the intensity of emotion attached to them.