Gardener by day, songwriter by night, Bristol-based Pem makes “almost-folk” that sits apart from the crowd due to their distinctive husky vibrato and otherworldly undertones: as if Dusty Springfield or Eartha Kitt were to join forces with Elliott Smith or Mazzy Star. Their latest EP cloud work memorialises their late father and the strange stun of grief, studded with references to flight and height, to birds and sky and water.
Country: UK
Label: Fascination Street