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Release Date: 23 January 2026
Label: Stoney Lane Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5052442029922
Genres: Jazz Singer Songwriter
Description
Lucy Mellenfield, the remarkable young jazz-folk singer-songwriter, releases her stunning debut album Tell the Water, She Will Listen with Birmingham's Stoney Lane Records - a poignant and original studio recording drawing on fragility, love, loss and the turmoil of society over the last five years.
Produced by Chris Hyson (Snowpoet, Jordan Rakei), the album draws on jazz, folk, interweaving improvisation and folk melodies, with immersive soundscapes and vivid lyric writing. The roots of the music sparked out of the darkness of early 2020 alongside Lucy's move to Birmingham, discovering a whole new community of musicians and lifelong friends.
"Tell the Water, She Will Listen is an album that pinpoints moments in my early twenties where I have been at my most vulnerable", Lucy describes. "I have faced fears, battled with relationships, fallen in love, seen loved ones suffer, revisited childhood trauma, experienced health scares, and have raised questions about the frightening society we live in. For me, songs are a saving grace. They unravel this scroll of feelings and thoughts that would otherwise linger in knots within me."
The album is released following Lucy's first full UK tour with her band last summer, taking in London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Southampton and Brighton, alongside festival highlights spanning the Cheltenham Jazz Festival to HowTheLightGetsIn. Weaved meticulously throughout an adventurous sonic landscape, featuring keyboards, guitars, saxophones, drums, bass and an extra sprinkling of magic from producer Chris Hyson, Lucy's writing on the record captures some of the deepest emotions and marked experiences from her life in recent years.
Tracklisting
Xhosa Cole
David Ferris Septet
Sara Colman
Sara Colman
Lucy Mellenfield
Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley
Paul Dunmall Quintet (with Ed Puddick & the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Big Band)
Steve Banks
