Alice Gold

If the name Alice Gold feels familiar, there’s good reason. Her Dan Carey-produced debut Seven Rainbows landed in 2011, taking her to Glastonbury’s Other Stage and tours with Eels and Noah and the Whale. BBC Music hailed her as laying “the foundations for a rock star”; the following year she sang on Sub Focus’s UK Top 20 hit ‘Out Of The Blue’. Everything seemed on track – and then she disappeared. Gold’s life and art have always been closely intertwined. After losing her mother at 23, she bought a one-way ticket to Nashville and spent six months driving across America alone, writing songs that secured her first major-label deal. Years later, motherhood and two major operations left Gold at her most fragile, and for years music ceased to be part of her life. Slowly, the songs returned. Moving from London to her ancestral home of Kent during Covid reignited something, and Gold began making Faultlines – her second album, arriving 15 years and an emotional lifetime after her debut. Self-produced, recorded with a live band and drawing on Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, Stereolab and Joni Mitchell, Faultlines is intimate, earthy and quietly hopeful – finding strength in vulnerability and connection in uncertain times.