Tara Clerkin Trio share new single, "Lazy Daisy", ahead of Somewhere Good album release; will tour UK/EU throughout summer and autumn

The Bristol three-piece – Tara Clerkin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Patrick Benjamin – will follow the record with a headline tour across the UK and Europe this summer and autumn, including two nights at London’s ICA on 20 and 21 October, plus dates in Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Oxford, Newcastle and Glasgow.

"Lazy Daisy" follows earlier singles "Somewhere Good" and "Silently". The forthcoming record is the trio’s first full-length collection since their 2023 mini-album On The Turning Ground, which has been pressed four times. They have also released In Spring (2021) and a self-titled debut (2020).

Musician Ryan Davis, who wrote a lengthy essay accompanying the announcement, described the band’s appeal in personal terms. “It is, quite simply, without exception, the music I wish to hear,” Davis said. He added that Somewhere Good finds the trio “sounding more like themselves than ever before”, with arrangements given space to “situate, stretch out, breathe, cross-pollinate, and ultimately take deeper hold on the listener’s imagination”.

Davis also noted the band’s connection to the so-called “Bristol sound” associated with trip‑hop, but argued that the trio extend far beyond that tag, drawing on avant‑pop, modern classical, kraut‑folk and what he called “a Trish Keenan‑fronted Faust” or “Adrian Sherwood at the mixing desk of If You’re Feeling Sinister”.

The album touches on themes including self‑defeat, disease, displacement, restlessness and gentrification, though the music avoids wallowing. Recorded and produced by the band themselves, Somewhere Good features droning harmonium, upright bass, wind instruments, acoustic guitar and piano, with Clerkin’s melodies serving as a focal point.

The trio recently completed a US tour and recorded a session for BBC Radio 6 Music’s New Music Fix.