TWO WHITE CRANES

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A well-known figure on the UK DIY music scene who has performed with bands from Joanna Gruesome and Grubs to Trust Fund, Two White Cranes AKA Roxy Brennan returns with first new material in several years in her prolific solo career with the brand-new EP Self Build. One half stripped bare electric guitar indie-pop pearls and the other half charming Casiotone electro earworms, all themed around humans and houses and the relationships they share, it’s the Hove-based musician’s debut release on Lost Map Records, which arrived on December 1, 2023 on limited-edition CD and digital platforms.

Roxy has been in and around the UK DIY music scene since she was 16, when she played her first gig with Francois (of Francois & the Atlas Mountains fame) in a cafe in Bristol. Between 2013-2016 she was in no less than nine bands, all overlapping, including Joanna Gruesome, Grubs, Towel, Trust Fund, The Nervy Betters and King Of Cats (“very overwhelming,” she reflects).

Her solo project Two White Cranes started in 2012, when Roxy was working as a temp at a hospital in Oxford. “It’s named after two large constructions cranes I used to walk underneath to get to work every morning,” she says. She released two albums, one split and one EP and toured all around the UK and a bit of Europe. Roxy’s 2015 album Radisson Blue was hailed by Goldflakepaint as “a wonderful achievement; the kind of record that acts as a beacon for this country’s flourishing DIY scene”. But by 2017 she felt burnt out and decided to bring the project to a halt. Six years later, she returns.
 
“When I started writing all these songs about buildings last summer,” says Roxy, “I decided I wanted to bring the project back, as the theme of construction fitted so nicely. As I have gotten older, Two White Cranes has come to function as a bit of a diary or archive or my own life. I am excited to add to the library.”

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