Lead singer/songwriter of The Corner Laughers, Karla Kane wears cat-eye glasses, plays ukulele and goes birdwatching, but thankfully they are no stereotype hipster-twee band.

Instead you get an intriguing mixture of bookish and badass on forthcoming album Matilda Effect and an epic cast of characters including Cleopatra, Alice in Wonderland, astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, and Martha, the world’s last passenger pigeon. Wistful and wry, barbed and sly – let’s just call it bubblegum you could cut yourself on…

Listen/download Fairytale Tourist here. The album is out on the 12th June.

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