Me Lost Me / Old Man Of The Woods

Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. The Project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, her work has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out". 

With her prolific writing and extensive touring schedule, her unique sound has won much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3's After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead. 
Me Lost Me’s fourth full-length album, This Material Moment, was released June 2025 on Upset the Rhythm. An “emotionally raw” album, it’s her most honest and vulnerable yet, akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider and interpret it from every angle. 

Whilst Jayne Dent’s music as Me Lost Me has previously presented time stretching back and forwards in opposition (noticeably on 2023’s album RPG), on This Material Moment she does away with linearity altogether, evoking rather than narrating, and presenting feelings, happenings and moods with no clear beginning or end point - “like experiencing a vista, trying to capture a moment that is unfolding all at once”. Instead, each track on This Material Moment exists entirely in media res, adjacent to past and future, and instead sprawling across the endless now. 

Old Man of the Woods is the ethereal electro-pop project of Seattle-based musician and multimedia artist Miranda Elliott. Blending intimate vocals, hypnotic harmonies, swirling synths, pulsing rhythms, organic textures, and atmospheric production, she crafts sonic lockets of crooned confessions. Raised on magical realism by a landscape painter and Jungian psychologist, Elliott began writing as a way of dialoguing with her subconscious, later expanding that inquiry across mediums. Often working site-responsively, she explores memory, ephemerality, and the porous boundaries between individual, environment, and collective, creating immersive audiovisual performances and installations. Having released multiple albums - her most recent Tendrils recorded while an artist in residence at an abandoned sanatorium outside of Berlin - and toured the US and EU, Elliott now shares Cape Perpetua. This series of ambient incantations, each track a poem gradually unfurling through vocal looping and harmonic layering into meditative washes of sound, is offered as an audio embrace during the winter’s dark chill, while she completes her forthcoming post-punk EP Triptych II: Revolve.             
                
"Blurs the line between the personal and the natural world, conjuring a vivid and sometimes eerie soundscape as damp and rich as the woodland floor" - Various Small Flames 
              
  "Each pop nugget is like a different landscape painting, textural and intriguing, with deeper meaning hidden behind the lush, beguiling surfaces" - Foxy Digitalis 
               
 "A pleasant, dreamy synth-pop journey with delicate harmonies that feel like they’re striking the listener from all angles" - Stereogum 
               
 “Pulsing synths, vocal hypnosis, and cinematic atmosphere that builds like a storm... mesmerizing, spiritual, carnal... not just an album, a sensory portal” - Expansión Radial