Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held Album Launch

Real World Records has announced the signing of twenty-something mould-breakers and conservatoire-trained virtuosos, fiddle player **Owen Spafford** and guitarist **Louis Campbell**, a.k.a. Spafford Campbell. Their new album Tomorrow Held will be released by the label on 1 August 2025.

Tomorrow Held is a visionary work comprising eight largely instrumental tracks that hold space, resolve into mystery, that fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre, finds gold in the embers. Forget about tomorrow, they say. Welcome to the now.

“Our music reflects our backgrounds,” says Campbell, who studied at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music and performed as a sideman to Sam Lee, Sam Sweeney and iconic singer-guitarist Martin Simpson. “Owen’s fiddle playing has a wonderfully deep underpinning in tradition, which is sort of ever-present, so if we are trying to craft a sound with its own energy, that trad undertone can’t really ever get completely lost. Despite our differences in musical background we share a common priority, exploring a small, specific idea through a larger lens.”

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