DOMINIE HOOPER:
“An amazing storyteller and a brilliant musician.. Endlessly engaging and thrilling” – Guy Garvey, BBC 6Music
Dominie Hooper is a London-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist crafting spellbinding music rooted in folklore, ritual, and emotional transformation. Her songs simmer with raw intensity and lyrical barbs, blending growling cello, textured guitar, and collective vocals into something dark, unsettling, and beautiful.
Her debut single for Lost Map Records, Land, produced by Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, Nadine Shah), is a powerful meditation on healing and self-reclamation. Written while reflecting on her upbringing in the wilds of Dartmoor, the track conjures a landscape of isolation, memory, and grounded magic. “It’s about choosing the path of healing, again and again,” Dominie explains. “Magic, folklore and myth offer archetypes through which we can flip our own script.”
Dominie’s sound draws comparisons to the brooding drama of PJ Harvey and John Parish, the raw emotional weight of Magnolia Electric Co., and the timeless power of Richard & Linda Thompson. Her commanding voice and blistering live band have already earned her support slots with This Is The Kit, multiple UK headline tours, and appearances at festivals including Shambala, Deer Shed, and Moseley Folk.
With early support from BBC 6Music, BBC Introducing, Radio 2, and RTÉ 2, plus backing from Help Musicians and PRSF, Dominie is poised for a breakout year. Her upcoming debut album, In This Body Lives, due for release on Hallowe’en 2025, promises to deepen the spell.
As Under the Radar Magazine put it, “The breadth of her talent is immediately apparent.”
“Absolutely beautiful” – Shaun Keaveny
“Spine-tingling” – Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland
“Amazing, amazing track” – BBC Introducing
LAWI ANYWAR:
Info written by Chester Vinewood:
Born to a Ugandan father and White British mother and raised on Dartmoor, Lawi Anywar's identity, in music and reality, is an exploration of dualities. Sonically influenced as much by Grace Jones as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as much Steve Reich as Sade, and as much The Mars Volta as Bad Brains, Anywar's music exists in a groove driven common ground between funk, psychedelia and shoegaze.
Anywar's second album, Centenarian, explores themes of regret and fears of dying without healing from past mistakes, with lead singles I See You and Lordvessel exemplifying an evolution in Anywar's shimmering, prog-tinged psych funk compositions, and representing a step up in his exploration of tension, release and locking into grooves.
"Lawi Anywar isn’t afraid to ask the hardest questions, sitting with mortality without letting it suffocate the joy of sound. It never settles, but it always feels true. And in that unsettledness, it feels profoundly human." - Kelly Rose, The Scene Music Media
