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) – release their anticipated debut album, The New Eve Is Rising, out today, 1 August 2025, via Transgressive Records (listen here). 

Nestled somewhere between primal rock’n’roll live performance and transcendent ritual, there’s an unmistakable alchemy that happens when The New Eves step onto a stage together. It’s a boundless, uninhibited kind of magic that feels completely new; that’s writing its own rulebook for how to exist – as a band, as women, as humans in the world – from the ground up.

“The space we go into when we perform feels quite far away from regular life. It takes a lot out of us and we really go into this other dimension, so it’s amazing that we can bring people there with us,” says Ella. “The live show is what’s got us everywhere – we had barely any music out, it was all so underground, but people just wanted to come and they’ve never stopped coming.”

They’ve now distilled this visceral energy into their extraordinary debut The New Eve Is Rising: a lightning rod of inspiration channelled by a quartet with the ability to create something greater than the sum of their parts. “This project has been about us redefining ourselves, and we hope anyone who’s listening can be inspired by that,” says Nina, as Ella nods: “We’re seeing how far we can go as four people by creating our own mythology.”

Musically it takes their untamed melting pot of musical styles – an instinctive, incendiary mix of Patti Smith radical poetry, rock’n’roll recklessness, freak folk experimentalism and plenty more – and somehow turns it into a collection of clarion calls that you can still hum. It’s completely immersive; a whole world to dive into that’s taken on a life of its own. “We’re all adhering to The New Eve entity of the band,” Ella notes. “The band knows what it wants.”

The New Eve Is Rising was written in Brighton and at an artistic residency at The Cornish Bank, and recorded at Rockfield Studios and Bristol’s Cotham Parish Church. Across its nine tracks are references to highwayman’s caves and 12th Century lovers Heloise and Abelard; to krautrock and Swedish cow calls and even lyrics whispered into a bat detector. The band call what they make Hagstone Rock. “There’s a lot of mythology around a hagstone, and it’s different in different places, but generally if you look through the hole of hagstone you can see the truth,” says Ella. “We see ourselves as a rock band, but there’s a lot of depth in there and putting hagstone in front of it felt better.” Pause. “It also has the word ‘hag’ in it, which we really identify with…”

“It’s the idea that you can do what you want – you don’t have to do things a certain way,” Nina says, summing up the revolutionary spirit of The New Eves and their debut. “When we made this band, we didn’t know what to expect. No one gave us permission. You have to do that for yourself.”

Listen to the previously released singles, “Cow Song” (watch here), “Highway Man” (watch here), “The New Eve” (listen here) and “Rivers Run Red” (watch the visualiser 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) tonight, Bristol, Liverpool, Nottingham as well as Resident in their hometown of Brighton on August 8th. 

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

August 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 [Matinee] – NEW

September 27th – The Castle, Manchester, UK – SOLD OUT

October 3rd – The Old England, Bristol, UK

October 7th – Hoxton Hall, London, UK

October 9th – Concorde 2, Brighton, UK

November 6th – Catapult Festival, Nantes, France – NEW

November 7th – Pitchfork Festival, Paris, France

November 8th – Sonic City Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium – NEW