Hannah Rose Platt featuring Ed Harcourt - "The Mermaid & The Sailor"
Photo by Ester Keate Hannah Rose Platt has an upcoming album of "poetic ghost stories," and on her latest single she teams with Ed Harcourt. "The Mermaid & The Sailor" is a nautical folk tale that is going to remind our readers of Charming Disaster in both subject matter and sonically. Platt and Harcourt's tale is a little more lush sonically, but it still has that sparse and haunting feel. Platt seems to take a little extra delight in the duet, with her role of mermaid calling to a sailor. Even if you're not paying attention to the joyful darkness of "The Mermaid & The Sailor," the song is going to appeal just on a purely sonic level. Hannah Rose Platt says of her new single: “The Mermaid and the Sailor is a hypnotic ‘Sailor’s Lament’ framed as a conversation exploring addiction, between the Sailor (the addict) and the mermaid (his addiction) whose siren song constantly tempts him back into the water." You can watch the video for ...