BBC 6 Music’s 2026 ‘ones to watch’.
‘The biggest secret weapon in British folk right now” – Far Out Magazine
“Arresting” – The Guardian
“A perfectly formed gem… Moss emerges as a master” – The Line of Best Fit
“Horns croon lonesome and melancholy over fingerpicked guitar and swooping strings as she stretches words until they feel like memories and meditations. Her sonic approach imbues the music with intimacy and tactility—the quiet wonder of a scene in a snowglobe…” – Pitchfork
Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte, and Christian Lee
Hutson, Elanor Moss released debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records in August 2026, to universal acclaim. The album has been praised for its stark poetry and striking originality, drawing comparisons to the sonic worlds of Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom and entered the UK Folk Albums Chart at No.5, with phenomenal press reaction including Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, KLOF, Clash, NPR, Paste, Uncut, MOJO and many more – and heavy radio rotation, particularly on BBC 6 Music.
Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists
such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange
and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies.
“Oh and the way that it feels
To know you
Oh and the way it reveals
I don’t know you”
So begins “The Way That It Feels,” the concluding track of Elanor Moss’ debut full-length
album The Knife, The Needle, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records. In two couplets, sung
over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created
in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over
the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those
things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to
these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something
unknowable just beyond.
