SADIE HORLER – SINGLE REVIEW


Sadie Horler – Washed Up Mermaid 
Sadie Horler - Washed Up Mermaid

Release Date: 19th June 2019

Devon songstress Sadie Horler is back (at last) with her superb new single ‘Washed Up Mermaid’ and it deserves your attention for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is musically fantastic but that was never in doubt. The picked acoustic guitar notes ping and pop with gentle abandon like leaves on a breeze or jetsam on the new tide while subtle violin notes weave them together. Seconly, Horler has a poetic style to her lyrics that quietly demand your attention as she sings of “Shoes where shells used to be” and “oh the wild angry seas, floating debris” – this is a song with a clear message about pollution of our seas but that doesn’t stop it from being beautiful in its form and delivery. Finally, the video (a first for Horler) is a lo-fi but utterly perfect accompaniment to a song that should be heard far and wide for both style and substance.


Live Dates:

14th June – Altitude Festival, Collumpton
14th June – Top of the Gorge Festival, Cheddar Gorge
28th June – The Cavern Club, Exeter w/Melissa Bel
5th July – Glas-Debury Music & Festival, Denbury
6th July – Party by the Parrett, Kingsbury
11th July – Lusty Glaze Beach Sundownder Sessions, Newquay
12th July – Wonder Fields Festival, Great Fulford Manor
20th July – Macmillan Festival @ The Dog & Donkey, Budleigh Salterton
26th July – YHA Treyarnon Bay, Padstow
5th August – Sidmouth Fringe Sessions, Sidmouth
7th August – Boardmasters Festival, Newquay