Sally Pilkington

Hen Ogledd’s third album, DISCOMBOBULATED, is fresh, weird, pranksterish, passionate and downright uncategorisable as we have come to expect. Their blend of freaky electronic folk-rock, politically charged psych-pop and modernist compositional techniques is elusive, bewildering and brilliant—music that seems to invent new colours. Admirably anti-bigotry, anti-corporate, anti-corruption. Their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.

Hen Ogledd return with “Clara,” a haunting single from their upcoming album DISCOMBOBULATED. The track blends pastoral beauty with the industrial grit of Northumbria’s mining history. An accompanying surreal video featuring a horse’s journey through 90s gaming nostalgia and medieval texts offers a psychedelic prelude to their immersive Valentine’s Day album playback and disco at Newcastle’s Star and Shadow.

Hen Ogledd (ft. Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington) have shared the video for “Scales will fall,” their urgent and striking first single from their forthcoming new album DISCOMBOBULATED. Vocalist Dawn Bothwell delivers her “Bard rap,” alluding to protest history—from the women at Greenham Common to the Durham Miners’ Gala—and contemporary organising against corporate greed.