Charlotte Carpenter streams The Fault Line EP ahead of its release on Friday

Carpenter swans into earshot with bold songwriting on this, her fifth EP. With dark Americana and dusty country-rock at the forefront, its a distinctly different kind of singer/songwriter sound, and it makes for an enthralling listen.

Speaking about the EP, Carpenter says: "I wrote this EP during a time where a lot of what I loved stopped feeling perfect. I began to feel quite splintered and fractured, when many things I loved were no longer in-sync with each other. I hadn’t long lost my nan so was processing the idea of death and the natural cycle of a lifetime. I was finding my feet with balancing a day job with a music career and struggling to find the courage to talk about problems in a relationship. I guess, I wrote this when I felt change in the biggest way for the first time. It was un-settling for a while but I feel grateful I have a way to vent... it’s easy to sugar coat a problem with a nice metaphor, but I think I’ve been quite blunt with some of these songs."

Carpenter's The Fault Line EP is out 13 November on Let It Go Records.

Stream the EP below. Her upcoming UK dates are after.

November

16 - Manchester, The Castle w/ Tom Williams
20 - Norwich, The Owl Sancturary
22 - Brighton, The Hope
23 - London, Servant Jazz Quarters
24 - Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
27 - Leicester, The Cookie