Kristin McClement's 'The Wild Grips' London Album Launch

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Kristin McClement's debut album The Wild Grips is set for release via Willkommen Records on 23rd February 2015.

We are excited to announce a very special full band show featuring past and present musical collaborators, in the beautiful setting of Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead.

Kristin’s music is born of two separate worlds; the vast shape shifting landscape of her childhood South Africa engraved with the melancholic romance of old England's sacred woodland, rivers and valleys.

Whilst studying Kristin met cellist Becca Mears (Peggy Sue, The Mariners Children, Eyes & No Eyes) and drummer/percussionist Tom Heather (Rachel Dadd, Sons Of Noel and Adrian, Eyes & No Eyes). As former art school friends the group helped develop Kristin's sound and their unorthodox ideas and approaches are a core element of the album.

The Wild Grips refers to our wild nature and Kristin’s reaction to it as a songwriter. Hidden behind the glance of every stranger lies the struggle to make sense of these troubling times. “What can we pull from the rubble of our modern world?" she asks. Her songs invoke a sense that there must be something more meaningful beyond the windows of our offices, shopping centres and rented houses.

Produced by Christian Hardy of The Leisure Society, The Wild Grips is a wide-eyed rendering of modern folk song where the acoustic and the electronic rub alongside.

www.kristinmcclement.com / soundcloud.com/kristin-mcclement