Northumbrian electro-folk artist Frankie Archer shares album title track 'The Dance of Death' - new album out 5th June

Northumbrian electro-folk musician and producer Frankie Archer shares new single 'The Dance Of Death' - the title track and final taste her debut album 'The Dance Of Death' - out 5th June via prrr of the bear. Frankie Archer tours the album this autumn with dates in London, Liverpool, Gateshead, Bristol and Birmingham.

With blistering synth riffs, chanting and medieval words on the lore of death, new single 'The Dance Of Death' - follows previously released album tasters 'Death and The Maiden' and 'The Unquiet Grave'.

Co-produced with Guy Massey (Kylie Minogue, Spiritualized, Richard Hawley), the record expands English folk into something immersive and modern. Influenced by the work of Little Dragon, Hannah Peel, Rosalía, Björk and Bat for Lashes, Archer approaches folk as a producer first.

On the release of the album's title track, Frankie said:

"The Dance of Death is a romp. A final rave in the face of mortality. If the end is nigh then let’s go out with a bang. The idea of Death coming to claim people with a dance was popular in medieval times when the plague made people face their own mortality. The moral of the story is: you could be the Pope or the King, you could be the person who works in the shop down the road or the kid in the playground. Nobody is immune from death, so let’s live life while we can."

On her forthcoming debut album 'The Dance Of Death', Archer reconstructs some of the oldest songs in the English canon through fractured, future-facing production. Working from archival ballads of obsession, devotion and loss, she warps fiddle lines, processes her own vocals and drives the material with pulsing drum machines and colourful synth arrangements.

Inspired by the medieval Danse Macabre, 'The Dance Of Death' is, in Archer’s words, “a collection of nu-ancient trad bangers” - stark narratives of mortality and longing rebuilt through meticulous studio experimentation.

Frankie Archer's debut album 'The Dance Of Death' is out 5th June via prrr of the bear.

LIVE DATES (tickets)

• 27 September - Gateshead, The Glasshouse
• 30 September - Liverpool, Liverpool Philharmonic
• 01 October - London, King’s Place
• 02 October - Bristol, St George’s
• 03 October - Birmingham, Midlands Arts Centre