Natalie Wildgoose announces new EP, Rural Hours

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Rural Hours arrives after Natalie's 2025 EP Come Into The Garden, with "Nobody on the Path" being the first look into a collection of songs which allow her to reconnect with the most intimate corners of her life in the moors of North Yorkshire.

Discussing the inspiration behind the new song, she explains: “The moors record what happens on them. I think the body does the same. As a child I would walk aimlessly and often daydreamed alone, I still do. Returning to Yorkshire a few years ago to start this project, I wanted to capture those thoughts and feelings you get on solitary walks in the dales, finding quiet in the hills. This song took shape during a very real, and at points unpredictable, hormone cycle, sometimes that’s just how it happens. Sometimes the path wanders, and you will wander with it.”

Rural Hours was made over the course of a year, and was initially recorded on piano before Natalie invited musicians Chris Brain and Owen Spafford to form a folk ensemble. Rather than going for a studio, the trio set out to an isolated bothy in the Yorkshire Dales with no heating or electricity, leaving them with candlelight and solitude.

Following a tour with Jake Xerxes Fussell, support slots for Lily Lyons, William Tyler and Avice Caro, festival slots at Green Man, Deer Shed and The Great Escape, and several sold-out London headlines, Natalie will also be returning to the stage with her biggest headline show to date at Stoke Newington Old Church in May to recount stories inspired by life and loss within her community.