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Meadow Meadow is the debut collaboration from former Spring King members, James Green and Peter Darlington.

After the breakdown of their previous band, their writing together became a meditative, healing process. Sharing demos between Manchester and London, the pair developed a distinct musical palette, using creativity as a “constant source of peace and catharsis”. Themes of childhood nostalgia and the natural world are juxtaposed with a sense of loss and dystopian malaise. “Memory is strange, it connects seemingly disparate experiences together to form a storyline that you then carry with you".

Silhouettes:Meadow Meadow, the project of Peter Darlington and James Green, are today releasing ‘DNO’, the successor to their single ‘Boundless’, their first release of 2021. ‘DNO’ is a soft, otherworldly arrangement with meandering strings that unfurl like a summer daydream. The single features Alex Painter on saxophone and was mixed by Mike Lindsay of Lump and Tunng.

Meadow Meadow delve into a broad palette of textures with their almost child-like, experimental approach to instrumentation, bringing in sections of shamisen anchored by weighted piano keys and a percussive pulse. It’s a masterwork in tension and release: a mosaic of sounds and influences that invite you to stand back and take it all in.