Soot Sprite - Cautious Optimist (Reckless 
Version) (Specialist Subject Records)
Release Date: Out Now
It's always a delight when the excellent Soot Sprite pop up in my inbox and the new single 'Cautious Optimist (Reckless Version)' is a particularly shiny trinket. There's a lumbering, lurching rhythm to this one atop which they lay out a wrought melody that is part Radiohead and part My Vitriol. The cherry on the cake (yeah, I'm mixing my metaphors, so what?) is the pained but powerful vocal performance of Elise Cookes that leads me to believe this will sound huge live. Oh, and look, there is a tour. What good fortune....!
More information: https://www.instagram.com/soootsprite/
Live Dates:
11/11/2026 Bristol The Croft
12/11/2026 Oxford The Library
13/11/2026 Manchester Gullivers
14/11/2026 Norwich Dead Wax
15/11/2026 Leicester The Soundhouse
17/11/2026 Newcastle The Lubber Fiend
18/11/2026 Leeds Hyde Park Book Club
19/11/2026 London The Victoria
27/11/2026 Brighton Hope and Ruin
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