Youngest Daughter

Description

Youngest Daughter is the debut album from folk-pop quartet GUISE. Spear-headed by singer songwriter Jessica Guise, it follows the release of The Fun Part EP released on XMR March 2020. The album is produced and mastered by husband Frank Turner and features guest appearances from Emily Barker, Callum Green and Lukas Drinkwater. Will be released on CD, white vinyl and download. Live shows and festival appearances planned for throughout the year to support the release. As well as shows in Germany in September and main support to Will Varley on his UK tour in May 2022. *Release Timeline: Track 1 Dont Come Back released as a single + IGT 25th February 2022 First single Dont Come Back isnt a song about one particular person so much as a string of disastrous decisions. Its about the brutal transience and sheer depressing turnover of romantic entanglements I found myself in living in London during my 20s, and about crashing headlong into people who just bounce off and bounce along like dodgems. Its also about sometimes being the dodgem myself, and not giving myself too much of a hard time about it. Featuring Callum Green on drums and dear pal Lukas Drinkwater brought his marvellous upright bass to the party, and a stunning acoustic guitar solo. Track 2 I Know When You Leave 25th March 2022 IG track I wrote the words to I Know When You Leave on a bus in Italy, and the tune came to me later back in London, Separation from the person I love is a pretty normal part of my life, but that doesnt make it easy all the time; things are generally just a bit worse when were apart, and thats what this is about. Recorded almost completely a cappella, with a subtle measure of floaty keys tumbling in towards its crescendo, I Know When You Leaves barren instrumental landscape adds to the sense of longing and isolation at the tracks core. Features Emily Barker on backing vocals. Track 3 The Crying Kind 29th April 2022 focus track The Crying Kind is probably the oldest song on the record. I wrote it a few years after my Dad, who taught me to play, passed away very suddenly. Recording it was really hard and we had to stop a few times because I kept crying (true to the title). I think you can hear that on the record though, and it seems appropriate for it to have been hard to sing given the context and title.