Folk darling Natalie Wildgoose’s “Angel” is as tender as a declaration of love

With her natural folk music, Natalie shows fans that strength and gentleness are wrapped up in one. For admirers of songwriters like Molly Drake, Sibylle Baier, or Angel Olsen, you will feel right at home with Natalie’s eccentric, warm, and sincere sound.

With her new single “Angel”, Natalie keeps vulnerability at the core. The warming fuzz of an analog machine and a tender piano act are the backdrop for her soft lyrics, where Natalie explores our capacity to surrender in a world that demands the opposite of us. "This song was written in the heart of winter in North Yorkshire,” she says. “I was alone in the village hall, playing on the WI choir piano, surrounded by a heavy silence. The freezing room pushed me to play for as long as my fingers could endure. The journey home was surreal — thick white tracks crisscrossed the road, blending snow with patches of black ice, making it hard to tell one from the other. Then, as if on cue, a gust of wind swept the clouds aside, revealing bright blue sky overhead.”

“The speed limit read 60 mph, but I went half that, choosing care over haste. In that stillness, I realised how good it felt to move through life more slowly, to stop chasing time. This song carries that feeling — a hope to bring comfort to those navigating the fast pace of such a busy world.”

Drifting across registers high and low, and chords minor and major, Natalie explores our feelings of hopefulness and grief in “Angel”. The result is a lullaby that lulls listeners into a contemplative stupor. Is it a protection spell, a prayer, or a memory placed inside of a song?

Natalie wrote the songs for her upcoming EP on pianos across remote locations in Yorkshire, using her grandfather’s old Akai reel-to-reel tape machine to record. The analog sound makes her tracks feel all the more raw combined with her intimate lyrics. With much of her discography inspired by rural landscapes, much like Ethel Cain, the result is a sound that is simultaneously haunting and beautiful.