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Fastemerging British singersongwriter and guitarist Rosie FraterTaylor is widely regarded as a virtuoso guitarist and a vocalist with a powerful emotional range and depth.Her 2021′ s selfproduced album ‘Bloom’ garnered in excess of 3 million streams, was nominated at Gilles Peterson’ s Worldwide Awards and made revered US radio station KCRW’ s Albums Of The Year list. She played over 60 shows across Europe with her trio in 2022 before heading into the studio to write her new album, capturing the band’ s energy and chemistry.Drawing influence from the likes of PJ Harvey, through Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush, to the rockier roster where John Mayer, Meshell Ndegeocello, St Vincent and Madison Cunningham hold court, FraterTaylor’ s upcoming album ‘Featherweight’ will be released on Cooking Vinyl in Feb 2024. The record marks a stylistic shift, deftly blurring the boundaries between rock, alt pop, neo soul, newschool jazz and folk whilst tackling an array of themes including selfreflection, vulnerability and anger. Lead single ‘Hold The Weight’ , an ethereal, angular guitar jam suffused with rage, describes the feeling when no amount of words can bear the burden of the intensity of emotion attached to them. Initially given drum lessons by her father at the age of 8, the native Londoner went on to pick up a variety of instruments often lying around the house, including the guitar, ukulele and bass. She spent her early teens discovering the vast and varied record collection of her parents, an eclectic mix of artists Zero 7, Tania Maria, Seal, Pat Metheny and more. She began exploring her own love of songwriting, jazz and alternative harmony studying in her youth at both the Roundhouse and then Royal Academy Of Music. ‘If you want something done right, do it yourself ‘ Rosie set off laying out multilayered guitarbased demos on Cubase at the age of 16. These would eventually become her selfproduced debut album ‘On My Mind’ 2018, a unique collection of songs which garnered praise from BBC Radio 1′ s Abbie McCarthy, Becca Stevens ‘badass ‘ , with Jazzwise Magazine hailing her ‘one to watch ‘ . VinylSide A1. Give and Take2. Falling Fast3. No Scrubs4. Hold The Weight5. Stop RunningSide B1. Get In Line2. Skin Deep3. Twenties4. Heartbeat5. Some Other Day Rosie Frater-Taylor Tee is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £40