Sonic Union: Katie Spencer Album Launch

Polar Bear Music Club, Hull.

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The Sesh x Skint Northerner presents

Sonic Union: Katie Spencer ‘What Love is’ Album Launch



Support from Marnie Glum


7:30PM // 14+ 

 

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Sonic Union provides a quiet performance space  limited to 80 people, supporting atmospheric artists in an environment  they deserve to be listened to. We politely ask ask all attendees to  remain silent through the performances.

 

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'Her articulate picking, with suggestions of folk and jazz, frames intelligently written songs’ – Guitarist Magazine

 

Raised in the East Yorkshire flatlands on the fringes of Hull (UK), Katie Spencer’s landscape has always been that of open skies and widening rivers. It is this sense of space and movement that flows through her  assured guitar style and songwriting. Now, as Katie steps into this new  era with a third album, her focus turns to those deeper inner spaces,  inviting the listener to engage with her heartfelt and  intricately-crafted songs.Her  writing, and most notably her guitar playing stems from a time when the  steel-stringed instrument was truly finding its voice. Artists like  Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill, Julie Byrne and perhaps most evidently  Michael Chapman, weave into her sound. 

 

Katie absorbs these influences  into her songwriting and with her distinctive deep vibrato and  crystal-clear guitar style, she makes the music inimitably her own.Katie will release her third album What Love Is  in October 2025; an intimate collection of ten brand-new songs produced  by Matt Ingram (Laura Marling, The Staves). Recorded in London’s Urchin  Studios and featuring prominent players Giacomo Smith (clarinet), Max  Clilverd (pedal steel), Tom Mason (double bass) and Matt Ingram (drums,  synth). What Love Is  evokes the spirit of Joni Mitchell’s finest later works, always  honouring without emulating. Lyrically mature and at times pastoral; the  album is melodically sophisticated and unflinchingly honest. 

 

She moves effortlessly from wide-open jazz-tinged soundscapes, influenced by  Pharoah Sanders and John Abercrombie, through to the folk-baroque  fingerpicking style that her fans admire her for. Her singing is  powerful yet warm, true and pristine in delivery. The musicianship  throughout the record feels liberated by Katie’s innovation and  confidence, and the result is a master-class of inspired and  beautiful-sounding craftmanship.