Heartstrings Snowpoet

• 1 tenderness 05:41
• 2 Our World 04:44
• 3 New Tree 109A 04:33
• 4 one of those people 04:47
• 5 (interlude) 02:28
• 6 Living to Live 05:23
• 7 Host 04:16
• 8 forest_bathing 03:40
• 9 FOR YOU 04:41
• 10 Skin 05:44
• Total Runtime 45:57

Info zu Heartstrings

Heartstrings is the new album from London-based Snowpoet, led by the creative partnership of Lauren Kinsella and Chris Hyson. Since their debut EP in 2014, the band has built a devoted audience drawn to their emotionally rich songwriting, intricate production, and distinct sonic identity. With Heartstrings, they take a bold step forward, writing and recording in the studio as a collective for the first time, capturing the raw immediacy of live performance while expanding their sound with lush textures, layered harmonies, and deeply personal storytelling. “We wanted to capture the moment to create something that feels real, unfiltered, and alive,” says Chris Hyson.

This album marks an evolution in Snowpoet’s approach. Instead of the fragmented process of previous records, Heartstrings was born in the moment, with the full band improvising, shaping, and refining ideas together in real time. The result is an album that feels alive – organic, immersive, and deeply human. Sonically, the group leans into rich, analogue synth tones, intricate drum textures, and a dynamic push-and-pull between electronic and acoustic elements. Lyrically, it is their most personal work to date, weaving themes of life, loss, and renewal with poetic honesty. “The sound of this record is richer, bigger, more expansive, representative of the culmination of everything we’ve done so far,” reflects Lauren Kinsella.

At the heart of Heartstrings is a powerful contrast – moments of deep emotional weight balanced with luminous joy. Songs like Host dive into themes of grief and the body as a vessel for experience, while tracks like New Tree radiate warmth and rebirth. The band’s signature harmonies and layered production give the album a three-dimensional quality, pulling the listener into a space where vulnerability and beauty coexist. With Heartstrings, Snowpoet solidifies their position as one of the most innovative and emotionally resonant bands in the UK’s jazz-adjacent and electronic-acoustic crossover scene. This is an album for listeners who crave depth, sonic richness, and lyrical honesty.

Lauren Kinsella, vocals
Chris Hyson, piano, synthesizer
Matt Robinson, piano, synthesizer
Dave Hamblett, drums
Josh Arcoleo, electric bass, saxophone

Snowpoet
London-based Snowpoet was born out of a musical friendship and understanding. Fusing together the writing duo of Lauren Kinsella and Chris Hyson, Snowpoet bring melody, form and poetry to a new setting. Inspired in equal parts by artists such as Bjork, Sylvia Plath, Joni Mitchell, Phillip Larkin, EE Cummings, Tom Waits, Ólöf Arnalds and John Cage, the group explores the beauty of the song form in all its complexity. Heavily influenced by alternative folk and indie genres, Snowpoet seek out new ways of storytelling through melody harmony and rhythm.

Lauren Kinsella
is an Irish vocalist and composer based in London working in the area of improvisation, composition and physical movement and its correlation with sound. Awarded UK Vocalist of the year at the JazzFM Awards (2016), she performs throughout the UK and Europe as a soloist, a bandleader, and within several cross-arts projects. She sings and composes in many outfits including Snowpoet with multi-instrumentalist Chris Hyson. She is a passionate educator and holds a principle lecturing post at Leeds Conservatoire. Lauren Kinsella is supported by PRS for Music Foundation and The Arts Foundation. She is the 2017 recipient of The Arts Foundation Fellowship for Jazz composition.

She is the featured vocalist in several recent projects including French saxophonist Julian Pontvianne’s Abhra, Turkish composer Onur Turkmenn’s ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, Irish composer Ian Wilson’s ‘I Burn for You’ and ‘The Last Siren’ and Laura Jurd’s ‘Human Spirit’. Kinsella also performs in Monster Music Improv; a musical and visual theatre show for children presented by The Ark and IMC.

In the past she has been awarded the Young Musicwide Performance Award (2010), the Kenny Wheeler Prize (2013), the THSH Birmingham Jazzlines Fellowship (2015) and she was a participant on the Take 5 10th Edition with Serious. She has received commissions from BBC Radio 3 and from Marsden Jazz Festival.

Kinsella’s performance and music are reviewed worldwide and she regularly features on several radio stations including BBC Radio 3 and Radio 6, RTE Lyric FM, Jazz FM, BBC Radio Scotland, Le Bande Passante, Sverigesradio and ORF Radio. To date, she has released critically acclaimed albums on Edition Records, WideEarRecords, Diatribe and Two Rivers Records.

Originally born in Dublin, she completed her masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

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