Streaming a week ahead of release exclusively here at Best Fit, Walking On Skin is a mature and astute debut, filled with autobiographical peans to Younger’s experience living and growing up in London.

This record has been a long time coming, as people who’ve been following Monument Valley for a while will know. It’s been a real privilege making it in my own time and with very little outside pressure, and I think it’s a better record for that independence and patience. In a lot of ways it’s emerged over that time as a record about London, which is where I grew up, live now, and where all the songs are set in one way or another. At the same time, I hope this record speaks to a bigger theme: trying to find your place in whatever environment, and making the most of a life. I’m proud of it, and I hope people enjoy it.

Monument Valley celebrates the release of Walking On Skin with a show at London’s Courtyard Theatre on June 10. Support comes from lo-fi Swedish chanteuse Alice Boman.

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