PENELOPE ISLES + SILENTIDE
Penelope Isles announce their long-awaited return with new album "3", due out September 25 via Bella Union and available to preorder here. After a brief disappearance into solo records and restless touring, Wolter siblings Jack and Lily resurface with a record drenched in salt and sun, and the tide pulling at its edges.
Three years have gone by since the band's last live show. Somewhere in between, life happened. Lily spent six months in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, trading songs for surfboards and stepping back from music for the first time in years. Meanwhile, Jack went out on the road as guitarist for CMAT, accompanying her on her unstoppable rise.
Both Jack and Lily released acclaimed solo albums over the past year, as Cubzoa and My Precious Bunny respectively. "3" is the sound of this magnetic songwriting duo finding each other again.
"3" is a record of firsts for the Brighton-based band who originally hail from the Isle Of Man. The first as a true three-piece, with close friend Joe Taylor (Anna B Savage, Iona Zajac) joining on drums, and the first they've ever recorded live. Jack and Lily trade shimmering guitars and sunlit harmonies like shared secrets, while Joe Taylor anchors it all: falsetto drifting wistfully above, drums crashing below. These are songs that read like postcards or pages ripped from a diary and slipped under someone's door.
Written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal, the songs on "3" have sandy feet and sunburnt shoulders, hooks that glow and harmonies that ache. A year later, the band flew to the Isle of Lewis off Scotland's northwest coast to record the album live at Black Bay Studio. Beauty built carefully, like a perfect sandcastle on a summer holiday, only to be flattened in an instant by your auntie's passing cruelty. There's sweetness here, but it comes with teeth.
Still obsessed with love, with heartbreak, with what lingers after, Penelope Isles carve out something new here. A shifting coastline of sound: hazy, luminous, and always on the verge of collapse. "Penny Isles is such a big part of our personalities," says Jack. "So it was about time we got back to it."
silentide is a forever-failed attempt to grasp what it means to be human in the submerged.
A rock band somewhere between experimental and indie, from Porto, formed in 2022 at Estúdio Cedofeita. The line-up features João Freitas on vocals, guitar and keys, Maria Inês Gouveia on vocals, transverse flute and synth, Ricardo Alves on electric guitar, Henrique Tomé on bass and Gabriel Valente on drums. After "Self Note" (2023), the project releases its second LP, "rio mancha condição" (2026), featuring songs in both Portuguese and English.
"rio mancha condição" is 11 songs about rebellion against false knowledge and arrogance, glimmers of hope in isolation, and other stories. Additional layers of saxophone and cello shape this ethereal atmosphere that calls for movement, regardless of how sure the direction is.
Three years have gone by since the band's last live show. Somewhere in between, life happened. Lily spent six months in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, trading songs for surfboards and stepping back from music for the first time in years. Meanwhile, Jack went out on the road as guitarist for CMAT, accompanying her on her unstoppable rise.
Both Jack and Lily released acclaimed solo albums over the past year, as Cubzoa and My Precious Bunny respectively. "3" is the sound of this magnetic songwriting duo finding each other again.
"3" is a record of firsts for the Brighton-based band who originally hail from the Isle Of Man. The first as a true three-piece, with close friend Joe Taylor (Anna B Savage, Iona Zajac) joining on drums, and the first they've ever recorded live. Jack and Lily trade shimmering guitars and sunlit harmonies like shared secrets, while Joe Taylor anchors it all: falsetto drifting wistfully above, drums crashing below. These are songs that read like postcards or pages ripped from a diary and slipped under someone's door.
Written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal, the songs on "3" have sandy feet and sunburnt shoulders, hooks that glow and harmonies that ache. A year later, the band flew to the Isle of Lewis off Scotland's northwest coast to record the album live at Black Bay Studio. Beauty built carefully, like a perfect sandcastle on a summer holiday, only to be flattened in an instant by your auntie's passing cruelty. There's sweetness here, but it comes with teeth.
Still obsessed with love, with heartbreak, with what lingers after, Penelope Isles carve out something new here. A shifting coastline of sound: hazy, luminous, and always on the verge of collapse. "Penny Isles is such a big part of our personalities," says Jack. "So it was about time we got back to it."
silentide is a forever-failed attempt to grasp what it means to be human in the submerged.
A rock band somewhere between experimental and indie, from Porto, formed in 2022 at Estúdio Cedofeita. The line-up features João Freitas on vocals, guitar and keys, Maria Inês Gouveia on vocals, transverse flute and synth, Ricardo Alves on electric guitar, Henrique Tomé on bass and Gabriel Valente on drums. After "Self Note" (2023), the project releases its second LP, "rio mancha condição" (2026), featuring songs in both Portuguese and English.
"rio mancha condição" is 11 songs about rebellion against false knowledge and arrogance, glimmers of hope in isolation, and other stories. Additional layers of saxophone and cello shape this ethereal atmosphere that calls for movement, regardless of how sure the direction is.