By day Maple Bee is Melanie Garside – a music therapist with a decade’s experience of helping give voice to the voiceless.
A children’s drum drowned in reverb, the pop and snap of face percussion, looped messing-about on analogue pedals – “Little Victories” is choc-a-bloc with this instinctive approach to making music, inspired by the pure expression of non-musicians.
From her early years spent on a round-the-world boat trip with her family – listening to the fantastical narratives of Kate Bush and Maddy Prior – to a musical her-story writing and performing in bands Queen Adreena and Mediaeval Baebes, Maple Bee’s aesthetic is unashamably other-worldly, spooky. Siren call vocals, the lyrics of myth.