Polly Paulusma
released her debut ‘Scissors In My Pocket’ on Björk’s label One Little Independent to critical acclaim in 2004, supporting Bob Dylan and Coldplay as the album’s reputation grew.

She subsequently released four studio albums and four sister-albums, scored a film soundtrack, founded a record label (Wild Sound) which has supported the work of nine other indie-folk artists, and produced records by other artists such as Harry Harris, Stylusboy and Mortal Tides. She has completed a literature/musicology PhD on Angela Carter’s folk singing (published by Bloomsbury) which her fourth album ‘Invisible Music: folk songs that influenced Angela Carter’ renders in musical terms.

Her fifth album ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’ (2022) and its sister-album (2023) began developing a new style that incorporated spoken-word and song as one unit, leading to her extraordinary sixth studio album ‘Wildfires’, produced by the legendary Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Laura Marling, Ray Lamontagne), which brings this work to fruition. ‘Wildfires’ is released spring 2025.

Between writing, recording and touring Paulusma teaches songwriting and poetry for Cambridge University and songwriting for the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, where she is Associate Professor of Song and Literature.

‘vibrant, insightful’ **** — Guardian/Observer

‘intoxicating’ — BBC Radio 2

‘the finest young British female singer-songwriter to emerge over the last 12 months’ **** — Uncut

‘complete, pure and personal’ **** — MOJO

‘the best album to come out of the UK this year’ — KCRW, Los Angeles

‘outstanding’ — Daily Telegraph

‘an enchanting debut of understated, intelligent folk pop’ — Rolling Stone USA