This week’s spotlight lands on the quietly spellbinding world of Sailing Stones, the Irish-born, Bristol-based artist whose music feels less like a collection of songs and more like a soft-focus portal.
Fronted by Jenny Lindfors, the project balances intimacy and grandeur. Lindfors is preparing to unveil a new chapter with “A Promise To Love,” the first taste of her forthcoming album Slow Magic, due for release on 3rd July 2026. The track zeroes in on the colour red and the strange, hazy edges of early parenthood, those moments that can feel either like celestial visitation or something a little more unnerving.
The album’s twelve tracks are each tied to a different colour, a simple idea that becomes a powerful emotional map. Lindfors produced the record herself, with haunting arrangements from her partner, Dan Moore. Some songs were shaped at home, others given their final, echoing polish in a chapel-turned-studio in West Wales, a detail that makes perfect sense once you hear how much space and air lives inside these recordings.
Based in Bristol, Lindfors is crafting music that feels both deeply personal and strangely communal, especially in how it explores matrescence, the physical and emotional transformation of becoming a mother. Rather than treating it as a trend, Sailing Stones frames it as something timeless and shared, full of joy, dissociation, rapture, and quiet resilience.
If you’re craving music that rewards patience, invites you to sit with your feelings, and leaves a gentle afterglow long after the final note fades, this is your artist of the week. Slow magic, indeed…
“A Promise To Love” is in stores now.
