Having topped the UK’s Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart, earned Album of the Year at the Americana UK Awards, and played everywhere from Glastonbury to SXSW, Ferris & Sylvester now unveil their brand new single ‘5-4-3-2-1’. It comes from the husband-and-wife duo’s third album, ‘It’s A Joy To Be Alive’, which follows on August 14th and will be released via their own Archtop Records label. Listen HERE.
A stomping gritty blues number played with the frenetic garage-rock energy, ‘5-4-3-2-1’ shows that Ferris & Sylvester excel just as much when putting their foot on the accelerator as they do with their more introspective slow burners. Issy Ferris’s beguiling vocal brings righteous fury and sheer passion in equal message as she narrates the imbalanced power dynamic during a phone call between a faceless corporate executive and a female employee.
The new single joins the recently released title track and ‘Fishing Song’ in previewing the ‘It’s A Joy To Be Alive’ album. As its title suggests, the 11-track album is an exploration of finding joy and hope in the darkest of parts of life, inspired by the duo’s own struggles after the premature birth of their son. It’s a record that’s rich with the pure songcraft and varied genre touchpoints of their previous records, ‘Superhuman’ and ‘Otherness’, but stronger and more vulnerable than ever before.
‘It’s A Joy To Be Alive’ is available to pre-order. It will be released on pink vinyl with a signed insert and a signed CD. Album bundle offers also include new merch items.
Ferris & Sylvester met ten years ago at London’s blues joint Spiritual Bar. Since then they have released two albums, toured the world playing festivals and selling out venues, and are now married with two children. Straddling the worlds of folk, blues, soul and Americana, honest storytelling born from their own personal experiences is at the centre of all they do.
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