Hailed by key tastemakers and national press alike, Melody Klyman’s recent single, ‘Sovereign’, has brought her early acclaim. Her debut album of the same name will be released this autumn through new British independent label, Blackwing Records

Canadian born UK based Klyman trained as a classical pianist from the age of 6, and wrote her first songs while at school. At 18 she formed an indie band in her native Canada and played the club circuit. After being wooed as a solo artist by a major label at the age of 20 she quickly tired of being treated “like a product”, still looking for a more suitable direction she declined and began to set her sights on the UK.

After a move to the UK she fell in love with rave and club culture and in the intervening years moved between both countries. She performed with dance artists in Canada and has sung and written for a number of dance producers around the globe using an alias picking up a gold disc and numerous plaudits along the way.

While Melody’s writing exploits in the dance arena were successful, her true musical inspiration was reflected in her love of artists such as Kate Bush, This Mortal Coil and the Cocteau Twins. Wanting to make music that bore all of these influences she made a home in the UK, reinvented herself for a 21st century audience and stamped it with her own personality

“Sovereign” the debut album from Melody Klyman will be made available in early October 2008 on Blackwing records UK.. The first single the title track “Sovereign” will be available digitally July 28/ 08.

“Sinewy electronic grooves, melodic surefootedness and an existential gloom make Melody Klyman the Cocteau Twins for the i-generation.” -
Andy Pemberton
(New York Times, Esquire, Blender, Spin, GQ, The Observer, Q, Mojo)

“She baulks at the term “gothic”, but at its best her music is like Siouxsie Sioux in a tussle with UNKLE - it’s symphonic, strident yet somehow soulful”-
Paul Lester (guardian.co.uk)