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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 12 May 2027
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW
We’re delighted to be working with Rachel Bobbitt for the first time!
Rachel Bobbitt is a Nova Scotia-born, Toronto-based artist whose music blends intimate lyricism with cinematic, emotionally charged soundscapes.
Her debut full-length LP, Swimming Towards the Sand, recorded in Los Angeles with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands, DIIV), revisits her roots with clarity, experience, and resilience. Across a dozen tracks shaped by the East Coast, Bobbitt sinks into memory, floats through loss, and emerges renewed, creating an expansive musical landscape.
Throughout Swimming Towards the Sand, Bobbitt returns again and again to the ocean – not just as a symbol, but as part of her internal landscape. ‘Having the water be so consistent and impartial to you, and terrifying and beautiful,’ she says, adding, ‘it is such a strong presence for me.’ The album is textured by the loss, yet it resists despair. It offers a return not just to home, but to self: a reclamation of the things that remain after the tide recedes. Bobbitt describes it as her most fully realised work, and it shows.
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