COBALT CHAPEL

• A Saint Jimmy O
• B Two Days Awake
• HL33
• Release date | 01/08/2025

Comprising Cecilia Fage (Matt Berry & the Maypoles, Maps) and Jarrod Gosling (I Monster, Regal Worm), Cobalt Chapel create beguiling work that explores landscape, humanity and folklore. 

Their second album ’Synthetic Orange’ was a captivating blend of curious influences and addictive melodies: their own brand of powerful electronic-laced psych-folk. It was chosen as one of BBC Radio 6 Music’s Albums of the Year, with Stuart Maconie calling it “My favourite album of the year… it’s fabulous.” 

Now, Heaven’s Lathe are releasing two bewitching songs from this distinctive duo.

A Side: ‘Saint Jimmy O’ is a chilling electro-folk ballad, about the horrific bogeyman of West Yorkshire: Jimmy Savile. Inspired by disturbing 1960s b/w footage of the DJ leading a group of children down a hillside to the small village where he kept his caravan, as though he had cast a dreadful spell. With a title suggested by the author Ben Myers (The Gallows Pole, The Offing) the song sets Fage’s pure tones over a bubbling lake of electronics. 

B Side: ‘Two Days Awake’ is a pulsing synth-led and folk-infused dance track, written after witnessing plumes of smoke rising over Marsden Moor: a catastrophic fire that burned for days and razed nearly 2000 acres of moorland.

“Exciting, spooky and stylish, this is quite unlike anything else going on in music right now.” – The Times 

“Imagine if the BBC Radiophonic Workshop wrote pop songs for ABBA.” – Echoes And Dust

“Wonderful and atmospheric.”  – Uncut“This is electrifying stuff… it all makes for a riveting listen and comes fully recommended.” – Electronic Sound