Hannah Rose Platt has teamed up with Ed Harcourt for an impressive nautical folk tale, ‘The Mermaid & The Sailor’. It’s a devilishly haunting duet that delves into the depths of addiction, with the mermaid constantly luring the sailor back in with her siren call, like a nautical twist on Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s ‘Where The Wild Roses Grow’. “What I love about working with Hannah is that she is very free and totally open to my delusional bouts of grandeur and hopefully you, the listener, will hear the love and the pathos and the dark humour that we have managed to commit to tape in equal measure,” explains Harcourt, who produced and plays on Hannah Rose Platt’s upcoming album, Deathbed Confessions, due for release on May 19th, 2023. -Dan Peeke