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Winner of the esteemed Christian Raphael Prize 2023, recent guest on Later... with Jools Holland, featured in BBC Two's Glastonbury 2024 coverage, soon to support The Last Dinner Party, Frankie Archer is making waves.
“Have you ever been there at the start of something new? Something exciting? Something that crackles with possibilities?” Gavin McNamara (Bristol 24/7) witnessed the power of Frankie Archer’s music. She is fresh on the scene and shaking up genres and traditions, sharing the lesser told sides of stories, championing women, challenging perspectives and calling for a fairer future, all to a unique mix of synths, manipulated samples, drum tracks and earthy fiddle and voice.
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Frankie Archer's debut EP, Never So Red, sees her unashamedly bringing together her love for electronic music and her love for traditional music. Never So Red is packed with all sorts of sounds: mega synth riffs with four on the floor kick, hazily manipulated vocal textures and rhythms, straight up trad fiddle, smooth synth bass, lo-fi elements, bare, acoustic pizzicato and raw, vulnerable vocals.
Never So Red challenges out of date and harmful narratives and stereotypes, in traditional music and in everyday life. Women are not responsible for men’s projected feelings and don’t deserve to be punished for them. Women are powerful and wise, not voiceless victims. Sexual violence happens and should be called out, not swept under the rug. Chasing and pressure is not the way to go about love and sex. Expression of love and sexuality should be free for everyone.
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Frankie Archer’s imaginative and bold mash of electro alt-trad shows her Northumbrian fiddle roots, her deep love of electronic music and her immersion in soulful folk songs from the North East of England and around the world. Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2) described her music as “fascinating and Intoxicating”.
Her unique, fresh sound has pricked up the ears of fans and press, being featured in Bandcamp Best Of, Amazing Radio Tips for 2024, earning wonderful reviews from Tradfolk and Fresh on the Net, and being chosen by Fatea for their Showcase Session.
As well as her exciting solo venture, Frankie also plays with Kenyan musician Rapasa Otieno and with folk-infused prog bandleader Joshua Burnell.
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“Extraordinary”
Jools Holland, Later… with Jools Holland
“Fascinating and intoxicating”
Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2
“Frankie is the most exciting thing to have happened in music; not just folk music, in the last 20 years”
Jen Taylor, At The Barrier
“Stills the breath in the room”
Gavin McNamara, Bristol 24/7
“Enthralling”
Jon Wilks, Tradfolk
“The most refreshing and interesting treatment of traditional music that I’ve heard in ages”
Jim Moray
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Oxford City
Frankie Archer
Oxford City is a traditional song nearly 200 years old, but the lyrics evoke things happening right now: incel culture and drink spiking. It’s tempting to think about old songs of times gone by, especially of songs dealing with the way women were treated, and say ‘wasn’t it awful back in the day, I’m so glad it’s not like that now’. While some
Oxford City is a traditional song nearly 200 years old, but the lyrics evoke things happening right now: incel culture and drink spiking. It’s tempting to think about old songs of times gone by, especially of songs dealing with the way women were treated, and say ‘wasn’t it awful back in the day, I’m so glad it’s not like that now’. While some things generally have gotten better, women still face male violence just sometimes in different forms. The poison wine in this song is a man spiking a woman’s drink to do her harm. Murdering her is an expression of rejection and jealousy which manifests as the same hate against women that incel culture feeds on: “if you won’t be my true lover, you’ll never be no other man’s bride”.
Although it doesn’t feel like it in the song, the time signature is changing all the time. It echoes the vulnerability and uncertainty the woman in the song faces.
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