Eaves Wilder & tall child (GM26 Preview)

Green Man Rising winner tall child — aka London-based Nigerian-Indian songwriter Zha Gandhi and their band — melds intense, stormy emotion and grungy riffs with sweet melody and happy-go-lucky indie jangle, to irresistible effect. The name “tall child” comes from a Mitski lyric: a marked influence, together with Radiohead, Arlo Parks, and Rachel Chinouriri. tall child released their debut EP Somehow You Grow last year, on which they grow like a tall tree and rise above the challenges of being a queer, disabled, POC indie artist. 

Zha chats to Eaves Wilder, who’s been coming to Green Man since she herself was a tall (or rather, small) child.  A couple of years ago, Eaves Wilder decided to quit music and join a nunnery. Thankfully the north London songwriter is still yet to don a nun’s habit — instead, she’s made a debut album called Little Miss Sunshine, which came out this spring. A compendium of influences — everything from CMAT to Philip Larkin, Wet Leg to Smokey Robinson — help her chronicle the change and loss of innocence experienced in your early twenties, and the result is something of emotional and elemental magnitude: or as she puts it, “music that would make you feel tectonic”. 

tall child opens the Mountain Stage at 11.45am on Friday; Eaves Wilder does the same at midday on Sunday.

Content warning: There is mention of sexual assault in this episode.