Elanor Moss at The Jam Jar
Headfirst Editor's Pick

"Our appetites well and truly whetted from years of her impeccable support slots, it’s a dream to see Elanor Moss take top billing with a debut album in tow! Spectral, fingerpicked melodies and crystalline vocals cloaked in pastoral melancholy – this is standout contemporary indie folk with the weight of the greats. Catch her before she ascends IYL: Adrienne Lenker, Jessica Pratt, Joan Baez, Vashti Bunyan."

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A gig held at The Jam Jar on Wednesday 7th October. The event starts at 20:00.


Ear Trumpet Music Presents: Elanor Moss - The Knife, The Needle Tour 2026 

Off the back of tours with the likes of Foxwarren (Andy Shauf), Flyte, and Christian Lee  Hutson, Elanor Moss releases debut album The Knife, The Needle via Merge Records.  Recorded live to tape over the course of two days, the album evokes the starkness of artists such as Sibylle Baier, and the poetic sensibilities of psych-folk greats before her. A strange and shadowy record of quiet epiphanies. 

“Oh and the way that it feels To know you 

Oh and the way it reveals 

I don’t know you” 

So begins “The Way That It Feels,” the concluding track of Elanor Moss’ debut full-length album The Knife, The Needle, out August 21, 2026 on Merge Records. In two couplets, sung over birdsong and Moss’ classical guitar, she manages to capture an entire universe created in the bond between two people. The couplets mirror each other and hang, like a veil, over the rest of the song. Regardless of time, intimacy, love, tenderness, and the way those things can change a person and a relationship, there is, she asserts, an immutable fact to these things: that whatever she learns from them, there will always be something unknowable just beyond.

'With shades of Joanna Newsom's dynamic originality, Elanor Moss has a stark subtlety that  bowls you over in its intensity.'- CLASH 

'The biggest secret weapon in British folk right now” - Far Out Magazine 

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