Rozi Plain

Whether she's been touring with Rachel Dadd or Devendra Banhart, The National or Robyn Hitchcock, playing her own headline shows or as part of This Is The Kit, Rozi makes friends and fans wherever she goes. 'Friend', her third album, was released in March on The Pictish Trail's Lost Map Records.

Following the release of ‘Jogalong’ in October last year (a split 7” with Rachael Dadd), new single ‘Actually’ is the second track to be released from Friend. Over a spare, snaking groove, Rozi reflects on “a difficult year, a tumultuous year” in a fascinatingly elliptical lyric delivered as a kind of dialogue with the exotic birdsong melody of a vintage synthesiser. It’s another highly auspicious taster of the gorgeous and completely intoxicating new album, which was engineered by Kristian Robinson (Capitol K), and features contributions from, among others, Gerard Black and Amaury Ranger (Babe / François & The Atlas Mountains), Kate Stables and Jamie Coles (This Is The Kit), and singer-harpist Serafina Steer.

Rozi Plain has been making music since her brother gave her a guitar when she was 16. Raised in Winchester, she spent a few years studying art and painting boats in Bristol, where she met long-term collaborators Kate Stables and Rachael Dadd. It was there that she made her first two albums, 2008’s Inside Over Here and 2012’s Joined Sometimes Unjoined, each works of intoxicatingly sad and beautiful pop, full of heart-wrenching harmonies dotted with unexpected instrumental flourishes that crash about and bring them to life.

Rozi recently moved to London, but she doesn’t see her flat all that often because she tours a great deal year round. She has taken her joyous live show on the road around Europe, the UK and the USA, in partnership with alt-folk luminaries from Devendra Banhart to James Yorkston and Lost Map’s own The Pictish Trail. She has appeared at festivals from Glastonbury to End of the Road and Green Man. As a member of This Is The Kit, Rozi has also toured widely, including several dates around Europe last year opening for The National.