Today Daisy Tortuga releases her first single under her own name, 'Strawberry' on Strong Island Recordings. She is a Hackney Wick-based rug-maker and ceramicist, as well as part of London’s psych-rock outfit Platypus Complex. The new single features warped electric guitar and vocals - recorded on a friend's tape machine, it has an earthy, DIY feel. Daisy carries serenity and lightness in her voice, reminiscent of 70s folk artist Vashti Bunyan, as she sings about being surrounded by flowers. She sings the whimsical line 'Don't worry about me, I'm just a strawberry floating in my patch', evoking a lucid image, whilst conveying the care-free spirit of the natural world. Tortuga said of the new single, “‘Strawberry’ was written from an experience I had after taking a large amount of ketamine. I used to have these hallucinations where I was, in fact, a strawberry in a strawberry patch. I was surrounded by other flowers and strawberries, imagining a pink sky in the middle of a meadow. The song is written from the strawberry’s perspective, the idea that its only purpose is to exist in that meadow, in that patch.” Daisy and her band, Daisy and the Deadheads, will launch ‘Strawberry’ this coming Saturday 12th November at The Baths in Hackney Wick. Advance tickets are £5 and £8 at the door - you can purchase them here. -Ellie Rose-Davies