When I first saw The New Eves back in 2023, I knew instantly that they were something special. The first sign was the hushed reading of their manifesto, read out by Nina Winder-Lind to a rapt audience (which has been recorded for the album as opener The New Eve). There was the fact that they played rock’n’roll but rejected the traditional guitar bass and drums format. And it was because as well as playing rock and roll they switched effortlessly to earthy, visceral folk music. There was also the way they mixed up the instruments they played throughout the set – Nina Winder-Lind on both cello and guitar, Ella Oona Russell on drums and flute, Kate Mager on bass and the biggest harmonica you’ve ever seen, and Violet Farrer on guitar, violin and interpretive dance. All the old rules were out of the window. Their name and their lyrics are steeped in literature and poetry, but rather than being a haughty intellectual pursuit the band translates this into something very accessible.

And tomorrow their album, The New Eve is Rising is released. Featuring all Highway Man, Cow Song and Astrolabe, which have all been singles, as well as the aforementioned The New Eve, and a handful of other tracks, the New Eves are not just rising is not just rising, but have very much arrived.

The New Eves are playing a host of instores over the next few weeks, including Resident on 8th August, and are hitting the road in September for a bigger tour in September, stopping off at Concorde 2 on 9th October. The New Eve is Rising is released on Transgressive Records on 1st August