Brighton-based four-piece The New Eves—comprising Violet Farrer, Nina Winder-Lind, Kate Mager, and Ella Oona Russell—today unveils “Cow Song,” the latest single from their highly anticipated debut album, The New Eve Is Rising. The album is set to arrive on August 1, 2025, via Transgressive Records.
“Cow Song” itself is a uniquely crafted track, born from an improvised jam and even partly recorded in a field with a cow named Bonnie. Inspired by the powerful Swedish pastoral tradition of kulning, a female-led vocal technique used to call cattle, the song sees the band embrace their own vocal strength with haunting, elemental force. This evocative single, exploring themes of liberation, landscape, and wanderlust, was recently premiered by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Of the song, the band state,
“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.
Fresh off acclaimed performances at The Great Escape — earning praise from Uncut and Clash — Brighton’s The New Eves are set to celebrate their debut album, The New Eve Is Rising, with a series of in-store performances at Rough Trade locations in London (East), Bristol, Liverpool, and Nottingham, plus Resident in Brighton.
Beyond these album launch events, The New Eves will embark on a headline tour in September and October, including key dates at London’s Hoxton Hall (October 7th) and Brighton’s Concorde 2 (October 9th). Their busy schedule also includes festival appearances at Wilderness, End Of The Road, and Pitchfork Paris, alongside support slots with Black Country, New Road.
