Yorkshire Lo-Fi folk-artist Natalie Wildgoose rounds off a breakout 2025 with a stunning, spectral new single ‘In The North’, recorded with backing from the PRS for Women fund. Released via state51 Distribution, the track was recorded in a remote Yorkshire chapel of huge personal significance to Natalie, giving a hopeful reflection on loss, as well the unique location of its recording.
Natalie says: “My mother’s side of the family is from Yorkshire, and I spent lots of time playing in the dales at the foot of the gigantic hills near our house. We had a tremendous amount of freedom because, as a child, you’re never in danger there, swimming in the rivers and hiding in the woods. The song was recorded nearby, in a chapel, which has been the location for friends’ weddings and funerals. I wrote it while reflecting on the loss of my grandad; its sentiment is that those we love are never truly gone, their presence lingers in the heather, on the moors, in the rolling fog. On the recording, the land occasionally makes itself known, the waterfall that runs below the church grounds, or an RAF plane tearing through the sky, a regular occurrence in the Dales. It was recorded in late spring on the chapel’s old grand piano, with just the engineer Matt, myself, and Geoff, the organist and caretaker, quietly reading his paper at the back.” Watch here:
Slowing down the frantic pace of modern life, her music seeks to uncover the past, to reconnect with and capture the environments of the places and communities that hold her.Since entirely self-releasing her Come Into The Garden EP in March 2025, Natalie has won a handsome share of admirers. From sold-out London headlines and Broadside Hacks-promoted shows; from nationwide tours with Jake Xerxes Fussell, to a slot at Green Man Festival, she has also earnt widespread adulation from the likes of Emily Pilbeam (BBC Radio 6Music) and across the music press, earning comparisons to the likes of Molly Drake, Sibylle Baier and Jessica Pratt for her trembling melodies and spectral power.
Living between London and the moors of North Yorkshire, Natalie Wildgoose spends her time scouring for pianos in remote corners of the Yorkshire Dales, finding them in Victorian mills, grade II listed village halls and isolated chapels, and capturing her music in these unique, historical spaces, recording straight to an Akai reel-to-reel tape recorder inherited from her grandfather, Natalie’s ghostly take on the folk tradition carries the powerful, rarefied qualities of an unearthed archive recording, capturing all the hisses, scratches, and atmospheres of where she records.
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