Me Lost Me with support from Ben McElroy

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Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. The Project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, her work has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out".With her prolific writing and extensive touring schedule, her unique sound has won much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3's After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead. On Me Lost Me’s fourth full-length, This Material Moment released June 2025 on Upset The Rhythm - she has created an “emotionally raw” album, her most honest and vulnerable yet.

Praise for This Material Moment:

The Wire Magazine - “One of her talents is identifying strong, evocative images that feel ambiguous but also somehow portentous...small images ground these drifting, elusive, probing songs, providing moments of recognition and stillness before they push off again into the mist”

MOJO ★★★★ “A David Lynch-directed version of The Unthanks… overwhelmingly powerful.”

The Quietus - “Her most accomplished and inventive yet… It’s an album you feel more than follow.”

Klof Mag - “an alarmingly good album, stormy and intense at one moment, wise and contemplative the next.”

Backseat Mafia 9/10 - “Such self-assurance feels like a step-on for ‘This Material Moment’ Me Lost Me, an album where experimentation and musicality are impressively balanced.”

NARC Magazine 4/5 - “Some artists are able to express raw emotion so legitimately that they forgo any and all tropes or restrictions of a genre and find themselves turning it on its head or even existing entirely outside of it.”

Ben McElroy
Ben is an ambient/folk/experimental musician originally from The Wirral but now residing in Nottingham. He combines acoustic instruments with computer processing to create folk inspired soundscapes.

Ben has been writing music since his teens, with just a basic grasp of guitar and even more basic recording equipment. Over the years he’s picked up more instruments and slightly better recording gear, and has been venturing out to perform live since 2022.

His album ‘How I Learnt To Disengage From The Pack’ received folk album of the month in The Guardian in January 2022.

In 2025 he released the PRS funded Elkwort on Laaps. Here he was accompanied by artists Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen), Nick Jonah Davis and Elinor Rowlands. In his own words:

“This album evolved from long improvisations on pump organ and cello. I really wanted to play the instruments as a form of therapeutic release, a kind of stimming, paying more attention to this than the Appollonian aspects of the music. So scrape and repetition… anger and using the bow/keys to really try to gnaw into deep, old brain feelings.