Permutations

Tracklisting

The Selkie [5.40]

The Dreadful Ghost [3.22]

Black Jack Davy [5.17]

The Elfin Knight [5.40]

True Thomas [7.04]

The Death of an Ordinary Star [5.53]

Ready For The Storm [4.18]

Biog

PERMUTATIONS is the new release from Clementine Lovell, an album comprising seven new tracks. Clementine's award winning debut album Westbound (Fatea Awards Debut Album of 2025) was "among the year's best" (Bright Young Folk) and established Clementine's place as an exciting new talent on the folk scene whose work is "spectacular" (Fatea Magazine), "outstanding" (Folk London Magazine) and "innovative" (Irish Music Magazine). Her voice has been compared to English greats the calibre of Sandy Denny and Maddy Prior; it "resonates and shimmers" and is "magical" (Americana UK), a voice that "really does stand apart from the crowd" (Folking.com). Fatea Magazine praised the "quality of her songwriting. She can take an idea and turn it into something both wonderful and remarkable". Clementine has collaborated with James Keay (Sam Lee), Robbie K Jones (Track Dogs), Ric Sanders (Fairport Convention) and Daria Kulesh, and her album was produced by Marion Fleetwood (Feast of Fiddles, TRADarr). Permutations is a collaboration with mutli-instrumentalist Gergely Nagy, whose musical background includes experimental and electronic music and who shares an interest in using live instruments with effects pedals to create atmospheric sounds. Their combined influences span traditional folk, to Hendrix, Kate Bush and Bjork. The tracks include two original songs written by Lovell, The Selkie and The Death of an Ordinary Star, reworkings of the traditional folk ballads True Thomas, Black Jack Davy, The Dreadful Ghost, and The Elfin Knight, and a version of Dougie MacLean's Ready for the Storm. The album explores themes of disruption, transformation, change and the different sides of ourselves, and features characters of a shapeshifting nature. It is produced by Marion Fleetwood, arranged by Clementine Lovell and Gergely Nagy, and features Clementine on vocals, piano, accordion, and accordion created effects, Gergely on guitar, bass, synth and percussion, and Marion on strings.