Biography
With an intricate and quietly off-center approach, U.K. alt-folk musician Rozi Plain first surfaced through her solo debut Inside Over Here in 2008. Throughout the following decade she broadened her understated electro-acoustic palette while sharing stages with Devendra Banhart, James Yorkston, and This Is the Kit. Her fourth LP, 2019’s What a Boost, drew on contributions from Sam Amidon, Chris Cohen, and sir Was among others, while 2023’s nevertheless intimate Prize assembled an equally wide-ranging group of guests.
Born in Winchester, Hampshire, Rosalind Leyden was sixteen when her brother Sam, performing as Romanhead, assumed responsibility for a local pub’s open-mike night and urged her onstage. Her debut album Inside Over Here was captured partly in Winchester alongside her brother and partly in Scotland with Fence Records founder Kenny Anderson, known as King Creosote. By the time of its release Plain had moved to Bristol to study art, where she helped establish the Cleaner Records collective together with Sam, singer/songwriter Rachael Dadd, and François Marry of François & the Atlas Mountains. Around the same period she began working with Kate Stables of This Is the Kit. The resulting second album, Joined Sometimes Unjoined, appeared in 2012 on Fence and Talitres Records and featured nearly a dozen guests, among them Dadd and Stables.
Plain later established herself in London yet increasingly divided her time between solo travel and ensemble tours. Her third album, Friend, issued in 2015 by Lost Map Records, incorporated performances from Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and members of François & the Atlas Mountains; a companion set of remixes and outtakes titled Friend of a Friend followed the next year. While touring internationally on bass with This Is the Kit she completed the material for her subsequent record, which was co-produced by the band’s Jamie Whitby Coles and released as What a Boost on Memphis Industries in 2019. Over the ensuing two years, sessions held at multiple sites, including Shorebreaker studio in French Basque Country and various homes, supplied the foundation for her next album, Prize, issued by Memphis Industries in January 2023. Co-produced by Plain and Coles, the record centered on Coles on drums, Amaury Ranger on bass, and Gerard Black on keyboards and synths, with additional contributions from saxophonist Alabaster DePlume and, once more, Stables.
Born in Winchester, Hampshire, Rosalind Leyden was sixteen when her brother Sam, performing as Romanhead, assumed responsibility for a local pub’s open-mike night and urged her onstage. Her debut album Inside Over Here was captured partly in Winchester alongside her brother and partly in Scotland with Fence Records founder Kenny Anderson, known as King Creosote. By the time of its release Plain had moved to Bristol to study art, where she helped establish the Cleaner Records collective together with Sam, singer/songwriter Rachael Dadd, and François Marry of François & the Atlas Mountains. Around the same period she began working with Kate Stables of This Is the Kit. The resulting second album, Joined Sometimes Unjoined, appeared in 2012 on Fence and Talitres Records and featured nearly a dozen guests, among them Dadd and Stables.
Plain later established herself in London yet increasingly divided her time between solo travel and ensemble tours. Her third album, Friend, issued in 2015 by Lost Map Records, incorporated performances from Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and members of François & the Atlas Mountains; a companion set of remixes and outtakes titled Friend of a Friend followed the next year. While touring internationally on bass with This Is the Kit she completed the material for her subsequent record, which was co-produced by the band’s Jamie Whitby Coles and released as What a Boost on Memphis Industries in 2019. Over the ensuing two years, sessions held at multiple sites, including Shorebreaker studio in French Basque Country and various homes, supplied the foundation for her next album, Prize, issued by Memphis Industries in January 2023. Co-produced by Plain and Coles, the record centered on Coles on drums, Amaury Ranger on bass, and Gerard Black on keyboards and synths, with additional contributions from saxophonist Alabaster DePlume and, once more, Stables.
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