Vera Sola

‘Peacemaker’ out now on City Slang and Spectraphonic Records. Alternately cast as the "lost love child of Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra" and "PJ Harvey at her most irate, teeth-bared”. Peacemaker follows Vera Sola's critically acclaimed 2018 debut Shades. The record is at times bold and orchestral while retaining some of the dirt and grit that was present under the fingernails of Shades, realising a whole world while managing to also find remarkable detail in snapshot vignettes. "if one were to unroll the mind, and watch as the moments that coalesce into memories rise from the map into relief. It’s a collection of stories stitched together with that particular dreamlike quality which allows for disparate spaces to converge into a single scarcely knowable vastness". “Deeply atmospheric American gothic” ★★★★ The Observer “She’s been compared to Nancy Sinatra but that only gives a clue to part of Vera Sola's considerable talents” ★★★★ The Sun “An essential voice in the current musical landscape” ★★★★ Far Out Magazine This is life, in all its wonder and terror” 8/10 Loud & Quiet ‘Fills the dramatic gap between Lana del Rey and Anna Calvi with a greater penchant for experimentation’ 4.5/5 - Musikexpress “Some artists exist exclusively in their own world. Those whose sound is so entwined with who they are and what they represent that a single short passage of their music immediately plants you in their frame of reference. Tom Waits is one, Elliott Smith is another, and now so too, is Vera Sola” 8/10 Clash “Striking a sublime balance between pop know-how and theatrical flair” 8/10 Line Of Best Fit "Already sounds as if it could have been around forever”” 7/10 Uncut “Her formerly black and white world is now in blazing Technicolor” ★★★★ Mojo 'An unmistakably American album” The Vinyl Factory ‘Brims with Cinematic Grandeur’ 7/10 - Exclaim!