aaamusic | On 17, May 2011

Roxy Rawson Single
‘Fingers’
Release Date: 2nd May 2011 OUT NOW!
Polk Funk Records

‘A fresh and exciting talent’ John Kennedy XFM

‘Phenomenal’ God is in the TV

‘An artist heading for greatness’ Music News

‘”I could, with ease, see this played on the summer-festivals, to thousands of people cheering upon hearing the opening notes” Criticism Fridge

‘Roxy Rawson’ is surely a name destined for showbiz. It is just as well then that her delicate, engaging music easily lives up to her name. Smothered in heart-wrenching emotion and unusual arrangements, Roxy Rawson proves that there’s still space for a talented British female singer.’ The 405

Classically trained singer-songwriter Roxy Rawson releases her eagerly anticipated single Fingers from her forth coming album Quenching the Kill.

Widely championed as the UK’s answer to Regina Spektor, Roxy has been bringing her bewitching blend of jumping melodies, unorthodox rhythms and colourful lyrics to the London music scene for a few years now. Armed with her violin (which is as likely to be performed off the shoulder than on), loop station, stage piano and a bunch of eclectic musicians (a classically trained jazzer guitarist and double bassist, a death metal cellist and a french drummer who produces hardcore), Roxy has spent the last few years cultivating a loyal cult of fans with live performances in London’s smaller venues such as The Troubadour, Union Chapel, Tabernacle, Notting Hill Arts Club and the Hawley Arms to iconic establishments such including Ronnie Scotts and the Royal Albert Hall. In Spring 2010 she supported Australian pop singer songwriter Sia at the Roundhouse which inevitably heightened the buzz surrounding this hugely exciting and talented artist.

The idea behind ‘Fingers’ sparked into life sometime in 2010 when Roxy strolled across Hampstead Heath pondering the answer to our earthly existence. As she stood on Parliament Hill overlooking the panorama of London and beneath the big sky (which if you were to break through into space would go on forever), she felt that the answer was in the trees, the plants and in being alive. With these thoughts, the melody for Fingers was born.

The single is in collaboration with Oliver Barrett; main singer and composer of the band Bleeding Heart Narrative and producer, Nostalgia 77. Self-released on Polk Funk Records, Fingers follows up from her critically acclaimed debut EP Changing Things released by Ambiguous Records in 2009.

Roxy Rawson ‘Fingers’ (radio edit) by jenrobertsartistmgmt