“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…
‘Mallows Marsh’ — Fell’s second full-length album — was released by Lost Map Records on 20th January 2023. It’s 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. Released as a CD, print and 40-page lyric book. Buy now from Lost Map Records.
2025 saw the release of the album ‘Futility Rites’. Gathering together a scattered assortment of songs written over a 10-year period between but yet to find a proper home until now, Futility Rites is a kaleidoscopic and unpredictable ride through a decade of daydreaming through song. There are tracks about everything from Kevin Ayers to the resurgence of European fascism, the ill-defined border between Leyton and Leytonstone, and the post-human future of lichen. The feeling is homespun, DIY and very personal, the palette shifting playfully from 60s psychedelic pop to synthy krautrock, rudimentary Casio-drum machine electronica and so much more. Buy here
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Photograph: John Hooper
Upcoming Dates
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Past Dates
2025
12th July, Daylight Music, St John’s Church, Leytonstone w Owen and The Eyeballs & Faith Eliott
11th July, Dreamhouse Records, London (solo)
21st April, Biddle Bros, London w Morningstar Music Club
23rd January, Hope & Anchor, London
2024
9th Decemberr, The Shacklewell Arms, London w World News & Your French Girlfriend
1st December, Servant Jazz Quarters, London w Faith Eliott & Callum Govan
4th May, Shake The High Road Festival, London
15th March, Biddle Bros London w Aiming & Silver Tears
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
Futility Rites (2025)
Released as a “vinyl-less vinyl” album, packaged in a standard 12” vinyl sized sleeve, with hand-crafted art and inserts by Fell’s Nicolas Burrows. There will be no physical record enclosed – only a download code. It’s an experiment in more eco-friendly approaches to releasing music, by cutting down on PVC plastic usage, while still giving music fans a beautiful tactile artefact to collect and enjoy.
The “vinyl-less vinyl” album was masterminded by Doughnut Music Lab, an art and research collective that draws on ideas from Doughnut Economics (see below for more info). The release of Futility Rites is a collaboration between Lost Map and Doughnut Music Lab.
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.