W: Mandy Morgan I: George Segrove

Rooted in the earthbound musings of folk, but clawing against a cold-blooded urban industry, Heart and Mouth is the emergent project of London-via-Devon artist Flynn Mulcahy, flush with intimate textures and brittle sounds that seem ripped, fractured, reshaped or regrown.

Recorded during an impromptu week-long session at Devon’s Middlefarm studios with Soren Bryce of the band, Tummyache, debut single ‘Heart in Mouth’ - out now, is the music that’s made after the music’s been made. The result of various studio outtakes and offcuts being tossed together and stewed into one dynamic sprawl, the track rolls across an experimental-rock hinterland pitched somewhere fleetingly between TAGABOW and Tom Waits. Strange, punchy, and brief, it’s also the track that gave the project its name.

Already winning early radio plays from BBC Radio 6Music and BBC Introducing, Flynn says more about the single: “When we were at Middlefarm studios, we recorded a bunch of songs that didn’t make the cut, tracked drums, and bass takes that didn’t feel right, so we scrapped them. One day chilling with Soren in her flat, we went back through these offcuts, found a sample from the US Library of Congress, and upcycled them into ‘Heart In Mouth’”

Flynn will be playing the following London shows.

Jan 31 The Old Blue Last
Feb 20 Notthing Hill Arts Club (with The Havocks)