ACCLAIMED singer-songwriter Polly Paulusma has announced an intimate live show at the Acorn Theatre, Penzance on March 13 as part of her extensive spring 2025 UK tour.

Her forthcoming sixth studio album ‘Wildfires’ is out on February 28 via One Little Independent Records and Wild Sound. Across nearly two hours and six sides of vinyl, folk instrumentation is peppered with spoken-word poetry prologues amid sounds from caves and rivers.

Polly brings a collection of textured acoustic guitars and rich, layered melodic flourishes. ‘Wildfires’ is mellow and cosy in its production, but its honesty is bittersweet – an intimate and reflective rumination on love’s many guises, the easy parts as well as the hard.

As always, Paulusma’s articulate and emotive lyrics, and her ability to convey the deepest vulnerability with vivid, sometimes nostalgic, imagery is astounding here. The new LP, as filled with delicate earworms as it is with expressive poetry, burns slowly but no less fiercely, and like love, it can be gentle, it can envelope one completely, and occasionally it can be heart-wrenching.

In an age of fatigue and dwindling attention spans, as well as targeted short-form content pushed over social media channels, Paulusma is asking us to slow down. ‘Wildfires’ is a callback, an ode to the concept album, intended to be listened to in a single, relaxed sitting, allowing for the interconnected stories of love in all its forms to reveal themselves.

Paulusma’s live performance with bassist Jon Thorne will recreate this feel on a spring 2025 UK tour, with Jon’s plaintive compositions accompanying spoken word sections as well as his kinetic playing on the songs. His creative collaborative input was instrumental in the project developing as it did.

Tickets for Polly's UK tour are available via www.pollypaulusma.com/tour