The New Eves: Ritual Punk Collides with Cottagecore in a New Sonic Mythology

Breaking genre boundaries and rewriting archetypes through sound, movement, and collective mythology.

A Greener Fury Rising

On August 1, 2025, Brighton's genre-defying quartet The New Eves released The New Eve Is Rising via Transgressive Records—an album that feels like both a ceremony and a sonic insurgency. Blending punk energy with folk mysticism and avant-garde performance, their work isn't just music. It's spellwork. It's storytelling. It's collective transformation wrapped in cello strings and sweat-streaked ritual.

The Myth Becomes Flesh

The New Eves aren't a typical four-piece. Formed in Brighton's eclectic DIY scene in 2021, members Violet Farrer, Nina Winder-Lind, Kate Mager, and Ella Oona Russell draw as much from literature, dance, and textile art as they do from punk or folk traditions. Their name references Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve and signals their mission: to reimagine old archetypes and summon new matriarchal mythologies through sound.

Their debut doesn't open with a verse or a hook. It begins with an invocation: "The new Eve is of earth / Granite, ochre, magma, dirt."

This isn't posturing. It's a full-throated rebirth.

Ritual as Performance

Live, The New Eves are unmissable. Their shows are part concert, part ceremony—with chanting, improvised dance, handmade costumes, and at times even fake blood. Think Velvet Underground scored by a pagan choir. Or imagine if Florence Welch ditched the arena and built an altar in your local woods.

Each performance becomes a unique experience, guided by spontaneity and collective intention. Reviewers have described their stage presence as "cinematic folk horror," but there’s something more generous here: they’re building a space for catharsis, chaos, and cultural revisioning.

Inside The New Eve Is Rising

Musically, the record is bold. "Highway Man" flips a traditional folk ballad into a feminist reckoning, turning passive legend into narrative reclamation. "Original Sin" melds garage fuzz, baroque strings, and a voice that crackles with authority.

There are nods to punk, psych, krautrock, and spoken word. But no label sticks for long. This is a record that shapeshifts—like the mythology it draws from.

Standout tracks like "Cow Song" and "Volcano" offer stormy propulsion, balancing dissonance with intricate instrumental work. Far Out Magazine calls the record "punk-infused, chaotic, and exquisitely constructed."

Handmade Futures: Why It Matters

For STUDIO814 readers, The New Eves are more than a sonic curiosity. They're a movement.

• DIY Roots: Formed outside the major-label machine, they’ve honed their sound in real rooms, not algorithmic templates.

• Multidisciplinary Craft: Their work spans poetry, costume design, traditional crafts, and choreography—a 21st-century Gesamtkunstwerk.

• Feminist Storytelling: Their art reclaims ancient narratives not through nostalgia, but through radical reinterpretation. This isn't your grandma's Eve.

The Culture Shift

With The New Eve Is Rising, The New Eves are helping chart a new genre terrain—one where storytelling, ritual, and community engagement are as central as hooks or charts.

Their trajectory mirrors the rise of acts like Black Country, New Road and YHWH Nailgun, but with an unapologetically feminine, folk-forward lens. They're playing to packed tents at The Great Escape and spellbinding indie circles across the UK. Next? Possibly the world.

STUDIO814 Takeaway

If you're looking for a band that tears open the seams between performance and procession, myth and memory, The New Eves are your call.

Stream The New Eve Is Rising. Catch them live if you can. And when you do, let yourself be undone, remade, and returned to the earth—gritty, glowing, and gloriously rewilded.