Description
Melanie Crew and Ross Palmer believe that music doesn’t need to raise its voice to be powerful.
Their gently harmonised voices and palette of fingerpicked acoustic and shimmering electric guitars
say everything they want to say.
Melanie and Ross began playing together when Melanie was bitten by the songwriting bug and began
to play her songs live. Ross – also a songwriter and veteran of many folk and roots bands – sat in on
guitar and started to sing some harmonies. Before they knew it, their personal partnership was also a
musical partnership. Since then, they’ve released an EP, Away from the City, a debut album, Quiet
After Midnight, and now Some Other Stories, their second full-length record as a duo. Produced and largely recorded at their South London home, Some Other Stories contains 11 selfwritten
songs and one arrangement of a traditional.
It pushes the themes they explored on Quiet After Midnight into new territory. The songs contemplate the connections we make with each other and what happens when those connections break down. They examine the people we are and how we become those people. They look at the past with a kind eye and to the future with cautious optimism. While handling the majority of instruments between themselves, Melanie and Ross brought in a team of exceptional players to add light and shade to their songs.
This list of instrumentalists includes Adam Beattie and Colin Somervell on double bass, Basia
Bartz on violin, Nick Frater on piano and Hammond organ, and Ben Handysides on cello. Ross’s
Great Days of Sail bandmates Yo Zushi and Russell Parton also feature in the choir on the
traditional ballad “Our Captain Cried All Hands”. Jon Clayton recorded some of these musicians,
and Dave Milligan mastered the album. These wonderful people helped Melanie and Ross to tell
their stories.
Track listing:
Winning Ticket
Take a Picture
Close the Book
Our Captain Cried All hands
Blindly Through the Wind
Look Back on before
Storm Rolling Through
Unspoken
Oh My Darling
Count Down the Days
Making Lists
Give a Little More
GENRE: Folk/Singer Songwriter
BARCODE: 684910296052
RELEASE DATE: 05/12/2025
