VELVET & STONE – SINGLE REVIEW


Velvet & Stone – High Tide 
Velvet & Stone - High Tide

Release Date: 24th July 2018

Devon combo Velvet & Stone aren’t resting on the laurels of creating heartstring tugging modern folk, oh no, they’re only giving 100% of the proceeds of this single to Cancer Research UK. The thing is, once you make that connection and listen to the emotive lyrics of ‘High Tide’ laid out on top of the atmospheric, organic music it’s nigh on impossible to hold back the emotions. The undulating rippled guitar notes have a Brother & Bones feel to them but the vocals are more ethereal as Lara Snowdon breathily sings “There’s trouble in the blood of you and me, the storm reveals the bones on the beach. But how cruel a high tide to take your breath away, I’ll miss you in the cold light of day” and a lump appears in the throat of everyone listening. Whether you’ve lost someone to cancer of just like excellent folk music with a driving heart, you need this song in your life so that someone else can keep cancer out of theirs.


Live Dates:

28th July – Smoked & Uncut at the Pig, Honiton
7th August – Sidmouth Folk Week, Sidmouth
8th August – Sundowner Session @ Lutsy Glaze, Newquay
10th August – Sunset Session @ YHA Treyarnon Bay, Padstow
17th August – Weyfest, Surrey
25th August – Exeter Street Arts Festival, Exeter
8th September – Stogumber Festival, Stogumber
9th September – Thomas Tripp, Christchurch
22nd September – The Church, Cookham