Physical release exclusively on Assai Recordings.

CD

• Limited Edition CD in digifile sleeve

Tracklist:

1. Push And Pull
2. Happen
3. Evilin
4. Even Though I'm Scared
5. Shift This Feeling
6. Good Girl
7. I Only Ever Loved Yous
8. Stranger Care
9. When Living Came Easy
10. Divine Feminine Energy

Glasgow-based alternative indie-pop artist Zoe Graham today announces the release of her debut album ‘TENT’, out on 21 March.

Several years in the making, this ambitious debut record is the sound of Zoe writing out of the rut. It has all the intimacy and vulnerability of the therapist’s chaise longue, but with the door flung wide open for others to listen in. Guitars curdle with loungy synths and tautly machined drums.

The title, TENT, is part open and perpetually-shifting acronym (The Eternal Navigation of Truth, or TEN songs about Therapy) and part metaphor for the mixture of exposure and safety from the outside world that sleeping under canvas provides. “That’s kind of what this journey has felt like,” Zoe says.

2024 was standout for Zoe, which offered a glimpse into the world of TENT through the release of singles ‘When Living Came Easy’, ‘Push and Pull’, ‘Even Though I’m Scared’ and ‘Evilin’ – accompanied by a video starring Evilin (played by Zoe’s mum, Annette Staines), a cook and 70s star who becomes trapped in her own television show.

It was also a busy year on the live front, with dates supporting Echo and the Bunnymen, Lo Moon, Arxx and Gurriers, as well as festival dates across the UK and Europe including The Great Escape (England), Reeperbahn Festival (Germany), Waves Vienna (Austria), Future Echoes (Sweden), and Wide Days (Scotland).

Zoe draws influence from St Vincent (Daddy’s Home was a regular backing sound during writing sessions for the album), Kate Bush (she shares a knack for catch-you-off-guard choruses with the ‘80s icon), and Beck (“he’s very free as a songwriter; everything’s thought through, but it’s not painstaking”). She leans on David Bowie’s advice not to stay grounded in your deep pool of ideas, but rather to push up and off, and let your toes just brush the floor from time to time.