Louis Eliot & The Embers

“True pop genius.” The Times

“Winning blend of rustic charm and urban cool… a savvy pop brain with the lyrical articulacy of a Costello or a Weller.” Uncut

“Louis Eliot has welded the sound of barn-bound folk to that of pure pop and emerged with an album that boasts ultra friendly, individually shaped songs guaranteed to warm both hands and feet.” Mojo

Having lived the dream of 90s London Brit-Pop hedonism, Louis Eliot snatched his Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar and headed west, swapping the fetid Thames fug for the fresh air of Cornwall. Away from the shrill whir of the capital, surrounded by timeless rolling landscapes and wild beaches, he started over.

Kittow’s Moor is an album full of warmth, pastoral beauty and raw passion, played with effortless skill by a band of consummate musicians, so obviously attuned to Louis’s artistic vision – among them a dairy farmer and a tin whistler who runs a fairground waltzer ride – that the glorious sound they make feels like the most natural thing in the world.

Think Hardy-esque harvest hoe-down on a Saturday night with the moon shining bright and the cider flowing; think of love lost and won with the briny taste of the sea on your lips; think of the adrenalin rush of a fairground ride and you’re there… in fact, wherever he takes you, Louis captures the essence of a scenario in a heartbeat with lyrics that evoke wistful nostalgia for good times past.

Timeless and magical, as English as the landscape, as fresh as a spring afternoon… Brit-Pop indeed.