Her solo releases include The Creature, A Joy of Some Kind, Babe of the Moon and the Come Into The Garden EP, followed by Rural Hours in 2026. Written and recorded around the Yorkshire Dales, the latter deepens her fascination with memory, place and the natural world, with Robinson returning as mixer and mastering engineer. Her distinctive approach has attracted growing support from BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, The Guardian, Clash, The Line of Best Fit and Stereogum, with Clash describing her “gentleness” as her superpower. The State 51 release most recently saw a re-release recorded solely on tape aptly named Rural Tapes.
Natalie Wildgoose
London and North Yorkshire-based songwriter Natalie Wildgoose makes intimate, spectral folk music that feels both ancient and strangely immediate. Built around trembling vocals, sparse piano and guitar, and the warmth and imperfections of analogue tape, her songs evoke the atmosphere of a half-remembered folk recording. Her work has drawn comparisons to Molly Drake, Joan Baez and Jessica Pratt, while retaining a distinctly English sense of landscape and storytelling.
Wildgoose first came to wider attention through Wanderland, her indie-folk collaboration with pianist and composer Matt Robinson. Together they made Songs I(2021) and Songs II(2022), creating a dreamlike blend of folk, jazz and electronica. The project established many of the qualities that have come to define Wildgoose's solo work: a fascination with natural landscapes and music that feels both intimate and otherworldly.