Once Upon a Time... In Shropshire

London-based artist and composer Jerskin Fendrix releases Once Upon A Time... In Shropshire, his highly anticipated sophomore album, via untitled (recs). It follows his critically acclaimed debut album Winterreise – Loud & Quiet’s 2020 Album of The Year, as well as his Ivor Novello-winning, Oscar and Golden Globe nominated soundtrack to Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things (2023).

In-between time spent nurturing his burgeoning career as a composer, Jerskin began work on OUATIS. The record threads together memories of a vibrant, rural childhood, attempting to capture a time and place that’s been altered by the ebb of time and the failings of memory. “It's not a sad thing - maybe a bit nostalgic. It’s trying to capture that feeling and how important that was to me and my friends and my family - and then how, bit by bit, it gets cracked and corrupted” he says.