Lael Neale + Entrance

Lael Neale’s minimalist drone pop draws inspiration from the Transcendentalists, the high lonesome sound of primitive American gospel music & the alienation of modern life.

Since signing with Sub Pop in 2020, she has split her time between rural Virginia and Los Angeles in addition to extensive touring throughout Europe and select shows in the US.

In collaboration with producer and accompanist Guy Blakeslee, Neale has created two internationally acclaimed home-recorded albums. They have recently completed a third, which is slated for release in 2025.

‘A unique, boldly weird proposition, and one that proudly carries the faint hint of tractor grease. Half of it comes on like cult 70s folk artist Karen Dalton hanging out with the Velvet Underground and Suicide, while the rest offers somewhat more modern balladry, placing her more in the world of Angel Olsen and Cat Power‘ – the Guardian

Tour support comes from Entrance. Emerging from the pre-internet post-hardcore scene of the late 90’s, Guy Blakeslee began singing his lysergic blues and mystic troubadour folk in 2002. The early 2000’s saw him supporting like-minded artists such as Devendra Banhart, Cat Power, Will Oldham and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Inspired in equal measure by the eerie falsetto of Skip James and the acid edged poetry of ’66 Dylan (and frizzy haired disciples like Buckley, Bolan & Barrett), Entrance was an integral voice at the vanguard of what became known as ‘freak folk,’ or ‘the New Weird America’.

Presented by Hey! Manchester.

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