Pain Gain: Forest Green Vinyl LP Cinthie Glenn Kotche John Stirratt

Glenn Kotche John Stirratt

Unrelenting in its attack

Daily Telegraph

the self-released album that earned her a Mercury Prize nomination and became a touchstone for a new generation of British folk

Pain Gain: Forest Green Vinyl LP Cinthie Glenn Kotche John StirrattPain Gain is the sound of a left turn that became a calling. In 2023, the supergroup trio of Chloe Kaul (Kllo), Hamish Lefevre (SWIM), and Samuel Cooke (CRUSH3d) each shed an electronica persona as they loaded a car with guitars, modular synths and a tape recorder for a weeklong hideaway in the woods. The result is Pain Gain, a debut album that trades velocity for gravity, moving fluidly between indie rock melodrama and expansive pop balladry while