Description
SHOLTO follows 2024’s expansive double album Letting Go of Forever with The Sirens — his third record in as many years. Where his earlier work embraced groove-rooted beauty and sweeping string arrangements, this latest album turns that radiance inward, refracting it into a darker, fever-dream atmosphere.
At its heart, The Sirens is cinematic: tender jazz harmonies flow into harp and string-driven undercurrents, while dramatic vocal fragments surface and recede like half-formed thoughts. Across twelve tracks, the music explores duality, temptation, and dislocation — what SHOLTO calls “blurring grief with groove, seduction and surrender.”
Drawing on ancient allegory and the carnivalesque to articulate inner turbulence, the album moves with quiet defiance, embracing tension that often refuses resolution. Recorded at SHOLTO’s SFJ studio in Hackney, it brings together his core collaborators — Syd Kemp (bass), Clementine Brown (strings), and Rachel Horton Kitchlew (harp) — who help shape the record’s immersive community-driven sound.
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