Penelope Isles After a brief disappearance into solo records and restless touring, The Wolter siblings Jack and Lily resurface with a new recording simply titled “3”: a record drenched in salt and sun, with the tide pulling at its edges. Written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal, these are songs with sandy feet and sunburnt shoulders, hooks that glow and harmonies that ache. Beauty built carefully, like a perfect sandcastle on a summer holiday, only to be flattened in an instant by your auntie’s passing cruelty. There’s sweetness here, but it comes with teeth.
Penelope Isles previously shared the album’s lead single, “Thinking Seat,” via a music video.
This week they shared its second single, “I Loved You, Robert Pattinson,” which is inspired by Lily’s love of The Odyssey actor back when he was in the Twilight films.
The new album follows 2021’s “Which Way to Happy” and the debut 2019’s “Until the Tide Creeps In”. Not only has it been five years since Penelope Isles’ last album, it’s also been three years since their last live show. In that time, the duo have been busy with solo projects—Jack with Cubzoa and Lily with My Precious Bunny (who released “A Moment in My Eyes” in May; . Jack also toured with CMAT on guitar.
“Penny Isles is such a big part of our personalities,” says Jack in a press release. “So it was about time we got back to it.”
The album features Joe Taylor on drums and was recorded live in the studio, at Black Bay Studio on the Isle of Lewis off Scotland’s northwest coast. Prior to that, the album was written on a monthlong surf trip to Lagos, Portugal.
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