Brighton based composer Poppy Ackroyd returns this November with her fourth full length album 'Pause', released by One Little Independent. Written during the pandemic and shortly after the birth of her first child, the title refers to the feeling of normal life being temporarily put on hold. As individual stories ‘Pause’ is compelling and ambitious but in its entirety it’s a flawless snap-shot of its time, highlighting the highs and lows of the period as well as a unique and challenging era for its creator. It carries with it a host of stages we’ve all found ourselves working through and has done so with gorgeous, poetic lucidity, all the while expanding on the sounds usually expected of a solo piano record. Ackroyd’s debut album ‘Escapement’ was released in 2012 and a DVD - ‘Escapement Visualised’ - featuring bespoke visuals by Tom Newell for each track on the album, was released in September 2014. ‘Feathers’, her second album, followed in 2014, and builds on the concept behind her debut, with most of the sounds again coming from the violin and the piano, however this time the tracks also feature other keyboard and string instruments. In 2017 she released her acoustic mini album ‘Sketches’ followed by ‘Resolve’ in 2018 and ‘Resolve Reimagined’ in 2019, featuring remixes from Max Cooper and Hauschka. Poppy is a member of Joe Acheson's live project Hidden Orchestra and has worked on numerous projects with other musicians, artists, filmmakers, animators, dancers and actors.