Cosmo Sheldrake debut EP ‘Pelicans We’ on Transgressive Records released April 6th 2015

A breakthrough 2014 saw Cosmo cement himself as one of the most exciting musicians around. His sold-out debut 7" single through paradYse Records picked up support from the likes of Radio 1, NME and The Guardian as well as reaching #1 on the Hype Machine chart and surpassing 650,000 plays on SoundCloud.

Now almost a year later, the young songwriter and experimental musician has certainly been keeping himself busy and new 4-track EP ‘Pelicans We’ is an eccentric fruit of fascinating labour.

“Sheldrake’s Pelicans We EP is the product of many travels and influences, from trips down the Panama Canal to isolated islands populated entirely by scientists, to rainforests in remote coastal British Columbia. Armed with impish and irresistible logics, Sheldrake rehouses these newly gathered influences next to his love of British folk and nonsensical poetry.

The EP opens with a broad and swaggering waltz, Tardigrade Song, an ode to one of nature’s most fascinating evolutionary anomalies. Also known as water bears, Tardigrades are tiny and almost invincible creatures known to put up with the most extreme conditions.

In The Fly Sheldrake adapts a poem by the mystic and visionary William Blake to create a crunching and anthemic pastoral. Many of the sounds were recorded at the top of a mountain in Wales, while lost in the fog.

Title track, Pelicans We, is a roguish musical setting of Edward Lear’s Pelican Chorus. Armed with a battered sousaphone, Sheldrake hosts the meeting of a Mardi Gras shuffle with a mouldy elegy, and stands by as they conduct an impossible affair.

Lead single Rich is a well-known Sheldrake number, and features collaborator Anndreyah Vargas. Hedgerow melodies deftly step over a beat made from the tearing of meat off a cow carcass. Rich received its debut play on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show last night.

Cosmo Sheldrake has toured and performed around the UK and Europe with the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Johnny Flynn, and Sylvan Esso, besides opening for the Mystery Jets at the Barbican. He has played sold out shows in Paris, Berlin and London.

'Pelicans We’ is released on April 6th via Transgressive Records and was mixed by alalal (Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, Metronomy) and mastered at The Exchange, London. Pre-order on iTunes here: geni.us/1AKL

UK/EU shows:

• April 8th - Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds, UK
• April 9th - Start The Bus, Bristol, UK
• April 10th - The Lexington, London, UK (sold out)
• April 11th - Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
• April 16th – Rock School Barbey, France
• April 18th – Fuzz’Yon, La Roche Sur Yon, France
• April 19th – Zenith Arena, Lille, France (w/ The Prodigy)
• April 20th - Blue Shell, Cologne, Germany
• April 21st - Orangehouse, Munich, Germany
• April 22nd - Café Kairo, Bern, Switzerland
• April 23rd - La Parenthèse, Geneva, Switzerland
• April 25th – London Calling Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• May 15th - Great Escape Festival, Brighton, UK
• May 28h – La Fleche d’Or, France (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)
• July 2nd – XOYO, London, UK
• July 4th – Blissfields Festival, Winchester, UK