PENELOPE ISLES Share New Single Ahead of Album Release Next Week

PENELOPE ISLES SHARE NEW SINGLE “TERRIFIED”   Which Way To Happy out 11/5 on Bella Union

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Previous praise for Penelope Isles:  "’Sailing Still’ is a slow-drifting indie rock ballad with an arrangement that saturates and wrings out like a sponge. This one has so many components — imposing synths, spooky choir, a whole damn orchestra — yet maintains a deep sense of intimacy.” - Stereogum "There is a grandeur to their songs, big and swelling, ebbs and flows...The whole band is seriously talented, and...seriously rock, too." - Brooklyn Vegan "It’s hard to successfully pull off a song that makes such dynamic use of space – especially within the format Penelope Isles is used to – but they pull it off [on ‘Sailing Still’] with the effortless brilliance of bands like Grizzly Bear or Beach House." - Paste Magazine (Best Songs of July 2021) "...[a] unique brand of noisy pop..." - FLOOD Magazine  “[Penelope Isles] emerges with “Chlorine,’ sounding like Kevin Parker leaving the insular nature of Tame Impala behind and forming an earnest, fuzzy indie rock band.” - Uproxx Penelope Isles, the project of UK-born and bred siblings, co-songwriters and co-vocalists Lily and Jack Wolter, will release their sophomore album Which Way To Happy on November 5th, and today they share one final single before the record is out. Album highlight “Terrified” follows previous tracks "Sailing Still,” “Iced Gems” and “Sudoku,” and is a reflection on anxiety set to a dreamy sunburst of psychedelic jangle-pop. As frontman Jack Wolter explains: “It’s about those days when you're dying inside but have to pop out to the shop, bumping into someone, having to put on a magic show, pretending to appear that everything is OK. It’s a song that has such a happy-fun-summery exterior but lyrically is totally the opposite. It’s one of self-doubt, displacement and finding something really terrifying to handle. Sometimes we hide a lot behind ourselves. 'Terrified' was an outlet for me to be able to tackle scary thoughts and worries in more of an abstract way. Things can seem impossible to talk about and articulate sometimes. I feel that making this album has enabled me and my sister Lily to open up a lot more and be honest with our songs as it just makes them so much more real.” Listen HERE. Which Way To Happy is the follow up to Penelope Isles’ 2018 debut Until The Tide Creeps In. It was produced by Jack, mixed by Dave Fridmann, and will be released on November 5th via Bella Union. Pre-order Which Way To Happy HERE

Jack and Lily spent much of 2019 driving through Europe and America with their bandmates, and, like many, felt everything was falling apart when COVID-19 put their upcoming plans to a halt. The duo, dealing with their own respective romantic heartaches, and coping with the loss of two band members who were replaced with Henry Nicholson, Joe Taylor, and Hannah Feenstra who contributed during recording, (“A godsend after a low time,” says Lily) were staying in a small cottage in Cornwall to start work on the new album when lockdown began. Claustrophobia kicked in, existential anxiety over the pandemic permeated everything, and emotions ran high. “We were there for about two or three months, ultimately,” says Jack. “It was a tiny cottage and we all went a bit bonkers, and we drank far too much, and it spiralled a bit out of control. There were a lot of emotional evenings and realisations, which I think reflects in the songs. Writing and recording new music was a huge part of the recovery process for all of us.”   The result is an intoxicating leap forward for the Brighton-based band, following the calling-card DIY smarts of their 2019 debut, Until the Tide Creeps In. Sometimes it swoons, sometimes it soars. Sometimes it says it’s OK to not be OK. Pitched between fertile coastal metaphors and winged melodies, intimate confessions and expansive cosmic pop, it transforms “difficult second album” clichés into a thing of glorious contrasts: a second-album surge of up-close, heartfelt intimacies and expansive, experimental vision.

1. Terrified 2. Rocking At The Bottom 3. Play It Cool 4. Iced Gems 5. Sailing Still 6. Miss Moon 7. Sudoku 8. Have You Heard 9. Pink Lemonade 10. 11 11 11. In A Cage   Penelope Isles - UK Tour Dates Tickets Here   11/20/21 - London - Shacklewell Arms 11/24/21– Bristol – Exchange 11/25/21 – Cambridge – Portland Arms 11/26/21 – Manchester – Gullivers 11/27/21 – Chester – St. Marys 12/10/21 – Brighton – Concorde 2   2022: 1/18/22 - Bristol - Rough Trade (in store) 1/20/22 - London - Rough Trade East (in store) 1/21/22 - Brighton - Resident Music (in store) 1/22/22 – Guernsey – St. James 1/25/22 – Guildford – The Boileroom 1/26/22– Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach 1/27/22 - Southsea - Pie & Vinyl (signing) 1/27/22 – Portsmouth – The Loft 1/28/22– Reading – Face Bar 1/29/22 – Nottingham – Bodega 1/30/22– Leicester – The Musician 2/1/22– Birkenhead – Future Yard 2/3/22 – Dublin – The Sound House 2/4/22 – Galway – Roisin Dubh 2/5/22 – Limerick – Kasbah Social Club 2/8/22 - Manchester - Low Four 2/9/22 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club 2/10/22 – Bath – Moles 2/11/22 – Exeter – Cavern 2/12/22 – Falmouth – The Cornish Bank 2/16/22 – York – Fulford Arms 2/17/22 – Newcastle – Cluny 2 2/18/22– Glasgow – Hug & Pint 2/20/22 – Blackpool – Central Library 2/22/22 – Hare & Hounds 2/23/22 – London – Oslo 2/24/22 – St. Albans – The Horn 2/25/22 – Ipswich – The Smokehouse 2/26/22 – Tunbridge Wells – Tunbridge Wells Forum   * Holiday Ghosts supporting ** Laundromat supporting

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