“Beautiful, witty baroque pop ...
very special indeed”
– Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music
“I really really love his delivery; it’s incredibly personal…a beautiful voice”
– Guy Garvey, BBC 6 Music
Fell is Nicolas Burrows, Jon Rulton, Matt de Kersaint Giraudeau and Dav Shiel. Fell’s songs are driven by Nicolas’s wry, off-kilter lyrics, considered vocal delivery and playful compositions: jangly guitar-pop and slow-burning pastoral folk sit alongside psychedelic freak-outs and krautrock rhythms. Nicolas’ intimate vocals float on top of woozy seaside organs and tape-wobbled guitars.
Fell’s first record, ‘There Still Are Mysteries’ was produced by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab and played extensively across BBC 6 Music. Currently signed to Lost Map, Fell’s ‘For The Pickling’ EP was released in 2019, produced by Peggy Sue/Landshapes’ Dan Blackett, featuring appearances by David Thomas Broughton and Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir. During 2020, Fell began ‘Sides’ - a singles project releasing two tracks at a time all the way from Side A up to Side Z…
Fell’s latest album, ‘Mallows Marsh’ was released by Lost Map Records on 20th January 2023. Mallows Marsh is Fell’s second full-length album – an ambitious, patchwork record full of mood shifts, flicking about lyrically through Anglo-Saxon healing charms, pastoral horror, horticultural murder-ballads, mid-Brexit snapshots and ruminations on personal myth-making. Sonically it’s full of wobbly guitars and woozy organs, with chamber-pop arrangements giving way to krautrock, raga and drone-inspired passages. Imagine 70s west coast psychedelia woven into eccentric English pastoral pop. Think XTC meets Love and Gruff Rhys. Produced once again by Dan Blackett, the album features Welsh artist Bedwyr Wiliams and master saxophonist Steve Hamilton (Madness, Noel Gallagher), with arrangements by Sean O’ Hagan (The High Llamas).
Released as a CD, print and 40-page lyric book. Buy now from Lost Map Records.
The band are currently working on new recordings for release in 2024.
Bookings: info@fellsongs.com
Photograph: John Hooper
Future Dates
Bookings: info@fellsongs.com
Past Dates
2023
4th-5th August, Howlin Fling Festival, Isle of Eigg, Scotland w Rozi Plain, Savage Mansion & more
15th July, Shacklewell Arms, London w Pictish Trail, Weird Wave, Firestations, MArtha Ffion
19th January, Album Launch Show, Servant Jazz Quarters, London
2022
18th December, The Old Coal Yard, Newcastle
17th December, Lost Map’s Humbug, Summerhall, Edinburgh
16th December, Lost Map’s Humbug, The Old Hairdresser’s, Glasgow
11th December, Daylight Music, The Hot Tin, Faversham, Kent
10th December, Daylight Music, St Johns Church, Bethnal Green, London
8th December, In-store, Dreamhouse Records, Leyton, London
30th October, Please Please You Pop Party, The Crescent, York
25th October, w Victoria Hume, The Harrison, Kings Cross, London
1st October, Squash Blossom Festival, The Smokehouse, Ipswich
24th July, Tramlines Festival, Sheffield
5th February w Charles Howl, Paper Dress Vintage, London
2021
30th w Firestations, Walthamstow Trades Hall, London
30th October, Cecil Sharp House, London
6th November w Moderate Rebels, The Victoria, London
2019
17th December w Vetiver O2 Academy Islington
13th October Paisley Arts Centre, w Callum Easter, Molly Linen, Pictish Trail
12th October Lost Map’s Strange Invitation, Bellfield, Portobello
11th October The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle
9th August Lost Map Showcase, The Social, London
30th May w Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade) Bush Hall, London
29th May w Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade) The Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester
Selected pre 2019 dates
The End Festival, w David Thomas Broughton, Paper Dress Vintage, London
w Cairo Gang, Shacklewell Arms, London
w Yama Warashi, MK GAllery, Milton Keynes
w Diane Cluck, ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal
w Wild Nothing & The Vaccines, The Harley, Sheffield
Wilderness Festival (Three-day literature tent residency)
OYA Festival, MIR, Oslo, Norway
Camp Bestival, Lulworth
Head For The Hills, Todmorden
Releases
Mallows Marsh (2023)
Mixed by Dan Blackett & out 20th January on Lost Map Records. Ten new tracks of sun-baked pastoral folk, horticultural murder-ballads, jittery micro-opuses and lilting guitar-pop. Originally begun as a companion EP to 2019’s For The Pickling and expanded over lockdown to a full LP, Mallows Marsh leans into more ambitious compositional territory and features arrangements from High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan.
Sides
(2020 —)
Ongoing series of singles, from side A to side Z…about love, climate catastrophe, insecticide etc, and a few covers. Mostly arranged and recorded live to cassette in Fell's practice room, with a few overdubs.
For The Pickling
(2019)
Released on Lost Map. Produced by Dan Blackett (of Bella Union/Warp signings, Landshapes) the EP features guest accompaniment from Dan’s bandmates Luisa Gerstein and Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, as well as the sonorous vocals of experimental performer, David Thomas Broughton.
There Still Are Mysteries
(2016)
Intensifying a long-held lyrical focus on natural wonder & magic, "There Still Are Mysteries" conjures up images of sun-drenched meadows, wilderness wanderings, dark lakes and moonlit glades, populated by strange folkloric characters hovering just out of view.
An undulating and lush 38 minutes of song: a perambulatory meditation on wonder, on not knowing, on magic, myth and mystery, produced by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab.