Hayden Thorpe

“unlike anything else you’ll hear all year. A remarkable, absorbing, often stunning experience” –  Clash Magazine 9/10

Best known as the former frontman of Wild Beasts, for his third solo album Thorpe undertook a beautifully unlikely musical journey converting into song Robert Macfarlane’s epic poem about former MOD weapons development, now nature reserve, Orford Ness. Not only does the album celebrate the beauty and power of a returned natural wonder – it also poses questions about the price of progress and win-at-all-costs politics. This formidable collection of songs does what only art can do, raising consciousness through sheer audacity and beauty. Robert Macfarlane himself describes the of music of Ness as “wonderful alchemy.”