New single from Ruth Lyon. Wickerman offers the first taste of a new project due for release later this year.

Newcastle singer-songwriter Ruth Lyon returns with the haunting new single Wickerman.Produced by John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey), the song is cut of similar cloth to the music on her Direct Debit To Vogue EP. Moody and magnificent rather than the hell bent on roistering juggernaut of Holy Moly & The Crackers.

With the release of Wickerman and its transfixing accompanying video (directed by Sel MacLean), Ruth also announces a set of UK dates, with stops in Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, York, Newcastle, and London – following notable festival slots at SXSW, The Great Escape, Latitude and Secret Garden Party.

Speaking more on the release of Wickerman, Ruth says: “Wickerman lives in the borders between lucid dreaming and painful reality and I wrote this at a time I found myself alone yet haunted. The iconography of the burning wickerman evokes the chasing away of winter through fire and ceremony, welcoming the Spring; a re-seeding of soul into new light.”

She adds how: “Unravelling life changes can be disorientating, kicking up heavy questions to ask and the only answers I found were in time, nature and spirit. I wanted to be remembered and more importantly to remember myself.”

On the song’s accompanying video, Ruth explains: “The video reflects the muted nature of the production capturing these textures and loosely depicts a priest, a groom and a bride in an uncomfortable marriage of self – the rebinding of a knackered heart with the looming witness watching on unbiased, expressionless, dancing. Time creeping closer like the tide. There is no end to the seasons of healing.”

Live dates in March:

21 Bristol, Rough Trade
22 Glasgow, Glad Café
25 Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club
26 Manchester, The Castle
27 London, Victoria Dalston
28 York, Fulford Arms
29 Newcastle, Cluny2

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