You Were Never Much of a Dancer LP

Fingers drag across steel strings until the notes blur into one long drone. That's the sound of You Were Never Much of a Dancer, Gwenifer Raymond's first album for Tompkins Square, who signed her in 2017 after a single demo. The instrumental playing pulls from Mississippi and Appalachian blues filtered through John Fahey's droning American Primitive style. The Cardiff-born, Brighton-based player holds a PhD in astrophysics from Cardiff University and worked as a game and AI programmer until guitarist Doctor Turtle heard her at an open mic and pushed her toward music instead.