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SOPHIE JAMIESON

I’M NEW HERE

“I ’VE been doing this for 10 years but I feel like I’m only just starting,” Sophie Jamieson tells. That may be a surprising statement for those who pegged the London-based singer-songwriter as one of British folk’s most startling new talents during her first run of singles and EPs. Though poised for a breakthrough, she instead stepped away for several years; then came “Hammer” and “Release”, two 2020 EPs that previewed the grace and turmoil contained in , her bracing debut for Bella Union. “In all honesty I didn’t know what I wanted to do until about three years ago,” Jamieson notes of the years 

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