Alison Cotton - I Am! (Official audio)

Taken from The Gods Laugh (out June 19, 2026) Pre-order: https://idol-io.ffm.to/thegodslaugh Listen: https://idol-io.ffm.to/iam Alison Cotton’s fifth solo album ‘The Gods Laugh’ (out 19 June on tak:til/ Glitterbeat) is a mesmerizing weave of haunted atmospherics and avant-folk songcraft. Built around her viola, harmonium, and transportive vocals, the album moves between stark drone passages and more layered arrangements with piano, percussion, and synths. 'The Gods Laugh' is a work of quiet, sublime intensity, cementing Cotton’s unique space in the contemporary English music scene — a space where richly textured sonics meet tradition, and deeply personal compositions evoke the experimental spirit of artists like Nico, John Cale, and Dorothy Carter. About the first single "I Am!" (out now) Alison Cotton says: “When I read John Clare’s poem, “I Am!” several years ago, I felt there was something very song-like about the structure. There was such a haunting, melodic, almost hymn-like feel to the poem that I really wanted to set it to music one day. The song begins with a minimal drone accompaniment to accentuate the feeling of isolation in the words and crescendos into staccato and harmonic viola, drums and the cawing of crows."