Biography
British singer/songwriter Jane Weaver formed the ambient pop project Fenella with her regular associates Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah, the pair also known from Starless & Bible Black. Its debut album, issued in 2019 under the same name, was conceived as an alternate soundtrack to the 1981 Hungarian cult animation Fehérlófia. The follow-up, The Metallic Index, surfaced two years later.
Weaver had already moved her own work away from acoustic folk of the 2000s toward synth-driven, Krautrock-inflected dream pop on The Silver Globe (2014) and Modern Kosmology (2017). Philipson and Ullah, both contributors to those releases, joined her to fashion a new score for Marcell Jankovics’ vividly hallucinatory 1981 film Fehérlófia (Son of the White Mare). The three began with basic tracks captured in an isolated cottage in Northwest Scotland, then completed overdubs at Eve Studios near Manchester—the same facility used for Weaver’s preceding records. Issued on Fire Records in 2019, the resulting Fenella album showcased shimmering synth arpeggios, dreamy vocals, and transformative guitar textures. In 2022 the group returned with The Metallic Index, an album loosely inspired by the real-life account of a psychic nurse active in London during the 1920s.
Weaver had already moved her own work away from acoustic folk of the 2000s toward synth-driven, Krautrock-inflected dream pop on The Silver Globe (2014) and Modern Kosmology (2017). Philipson and Ullah, both contributors to those releases, joined her to fashion a new score for Marcell Jankovics’ vividly hallucinatory 1981 film Fehérlófia (Son of the White Mare). The three began with basic tracks captured in an isolated cottage in Northwest Scotland, then completed overdubs at Eve Studios near Manchester—the same facility used for Weaver’s preceding records. Issued on Fire Records in 2019, the resulting Fenella album showcased shimmering synth arpeggios, dreamy vocals, and transformative guitar textures. In 2022 the group returned with The Metallic Index, an album loosely inspired by the real-life account of a psychic nurse active in London during the 1920s.
Albums
Singles
