After spending late last year amping up anticipation for the March 1st release of their second album ‘Otherness’ with the ‘Side A’ EP, Ferris & Sylvester get 2024 off to a flying start as they unveil the new single ‘Rain’. ‘Otherness’ is set to accelerate the rise of the husband-and-wife duo – Archie Sylvester and Issy Ferris – following the success of their 2022 debut album ‘Superhuman’, which earned UK Album of the Year at the 2023 UK Americana Awards and landed at #1 on the Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart.
Honing in on the sweet spot between sultry, soulful grooves and folk-tinged blues, ‘Rain’, which opens Side B of the album, detours stylistically away from the songs that featured on the ‘Side A’ EP. Yet its heart comes from a similar place, with its highly accomplished musicianship and warm analogue live sound fuelling a desire to maintain hope in challenging times. Issy’s sweet, carefully enunciated falsetto is the song’s star turn, but she also exudes a determined power as her voice channels the song’s emotions – especially when complemented with deeper vocal harmonies from Archie. LISTEN HERE
Issy (Ferris) says, ‘It is a song about how change is inevitable, and you’ve got to embrace it to move forward. It’s a new year and it feels like the right time for this track to come out. It marks a change in the album too. From Side A, to Side B. Change can be a scary and lonely thing. We hope this song can be encourage and empower people when they’re in the thick of it.’
With the release of ‘Rain’, Ferris & Sylvester have previewed the ‘Otherness’ album with a total of six tracks and collectively they provide an insight into the wider record. It is an album which defies simple genre-expectations; explores a wealth of emotions inspired, in part, by major health issues as their son was born prematurely while they were on tour in Nashville; and uses timeless musicianship as the conduit for songs which reflect the turbulent era we live in.
The ‘Otherness’ album is available to pre-order or pre-save HERE. It will be released on three physical formats: a signed CD, regular black double-vinyl, and limited edition signed marbled red heavyweight double-vinyl. All formats plus a new ‘Otherness’ t-shirt are also available in various album bundles.
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