Brighton-based four-piece The New Eves – Violet Farrer (guitar, violin, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals), Kate Mager (bass, vocals), and Ella Oona Russell (drums, flute, vocals) – today release “Cow Song”, the latest single from their anticipated debut album, The New Eve Is Rising, arriving 1 August 2025 (pre-save here). 

“Cow Song” explores themes of liberation, landscape and wanderlust. Inspired by the Swedish pastoral tradition of kulning – a powerful female-led vocal technique used to call cattle across the mountains – the track sees the band lean into their own vocal power with haunting, elemental force. 

The band explains further:

““Cow Song” was a song about big mountainous landscapes and the longing to enter them, to simply walk off, to wander. It is also a herding song. The rhythm felt like you were walking with animals, or more precisely, with cows. In Sweden (and other countries) there is a very old tradition of walking your cattle to a ‘summer farm’ (fäbod) in the mountains. This was a job for the women and girls only and they would stay with the animals in the mountains all summer which created a very special bond between them, the animals, and the landscape. There is a big and very exciting musical tradition surrounding this practice. The women would use a special vocal technique called ‘kulning’ to communicate with each other and with the animals across the mountains. It’s a very beautiful thing and it’s loud! This inspired us to use our voices in a new and bigger way. We allowed ourselves to be loud and that was liberating in many ways.

A very special thing about this song is that the first part was actually recorded in a field- being sung to a cow named Bonnie. You may be able to very faintly hear her mooing. She lives at Rockfield in Wales where the majority of this album was recorded.”

“Cow Song” follows previous singles “Highway Man” (watch here), “The New Eve” (listen here) and “Rivers Run Red” (watch the visualiser here). 

Listen to “Cow Song” here and watch the video which was filmed in Sweden this Spring and directed by The New Eves and Hugo Winder-Lind here.

Fresh from standout sets at The Great Escape – named one of the best acts of the festival by Uncut and Clash – The New Eves will celebrate their album launch with a run of instore performances at Rough Trade stores in London (East), Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham as well as Resident in their hometown of Brighton.

The New Eves will also play a headline tour in September and October with shows at Hoxton Hall in London on October 7th and Concorde 2 in Brighton on October 9th, festival dates at Wilderness, End Of The Road and Pitchfork Paris plus dates with Black Country, New Road. See the full tour routing below.

Live dates:

August 1st – Rough Trade East, London, UK – instore

August 2nd – Rough Trade, Bristol, UK – instore

August 5th – Rough Trade, Liverpool, UK – instore

August 6th – Rough Trade, Nottingham, UK – instore

August 8th – Resident, Brighton, UK – instore

July 24th – 27th – Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK

July 31st – Aug 3rd – Wilderness Festival, UK

August 30th – End of The Road Festival, UK

September 15th – Hare and Hounds 2, Birmingham, UK

September 16th – Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK

September 18th – Barrowland, Glasgow, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 19th – Fat Sams, Dundee, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 20th – The Glasshouse, Gateshead, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 22nd – Bristol Beacon, Bristol, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 23rd – The Tramshed, Cardiff, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 24th – Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK [w/ BCNR]

September 27th – The Castle, Manchester, UK

October 3rd – The Old England, Bristol, UK

October 7th – Hoxton Hall, London, UK

October 9th – Concorde 2, Brighton, UK

November 7th – Pitchfork Festival, Paris, France