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CMU Approved
Approved: Half Waif
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 31 January 2017
Half Waif, aka Nandi Rose Plunkett, is preparing to release her new album later this year, but before that she will return with a new EP, ‘Form/a’, on 24 Feb. It’s her first release through Cascine and follows on from last year’s ‘Probable Depths’ LP.
“There’s an inherent restlessness in the way that I write and think about sound”, says Plunkett. “I’m the daughter of a refugee, and somewhere in me is this innate story of searching for a home. As a result, I have many – a collection of places that I latch onto, that inspire me, that fuse themselves to me. I’m sentimental, nostalgic – yet constantly seeking what’s next, excavating the sound of my past and colouring it to make the sound of my future”.
She continues: “I’m a child of divorce, fiercely loved but forced into independence at a young age; I rocket into relationships with the desire to find roots, commonality, to create stillness in the midst of public noise. In this way, my songs are like the notes of a large scavenger hunt, clues pinned to trees I have known, or tucked under rocks on my path, urging the listener to keep looking a little deeper, because maybe they will find something special in the end”.
The new EP’s first single, ‘Severed Logic’, is out now. Listen here:
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