Shelly Poole

If you're passing a recording studio in London and you catch some warm, tuneful music and a peal of happy laughter floating on the breeze, chances are you've just heard SHELLY POOLE. Soon you'll be hearing a lot more from this exciting British female artist, who is producing some of the most honest and beautiful recordings since the heyday of classic singer-songwriters in the 1960s and 70s. Shelly's extraordinary songs – numbers like Totally Underwater and A Hard Time For The Dreamer - have already confounded musicologists and sonic detectives. Are they country-folk, chilled rock or rural jazz? They escape definition, defy logic, and "sneak into your heart when your brain isn't looking", in the words of one flabbergasted newspaper critic. In Shelly land, achingly addictive melodies and lyrics of love, longing and mystery combine to make the hairs on the back of your neck do a wild new dance!