Eaves Wilder Releases Debut Album Little Miss Sunshine

North London’s Eaves Wilder has unveiled her debut album, Little Miss Sunshine, a dream-rock odyssey of an artist emerging unafraid to shine in her own light. Stream now via Secretly Canadian.

An escapist creation born within four walls, Eaves wrote and arranged the record in the creative haven she’d made in her shed, later co-producing the project with Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, The Killers, The Horrors, Black Country, New Road, Sorry). The result: music of both emotional and elemental magnitude, and her most expansive output yet.

The path to Wilder’s debut album began, paradoxically, with a period of silence. After a run of acclaimed singles and a debut EP, she stepped back from music entirely. Unsure of her place in the world, she found herself envious of things that knew theirs – mountains, trees, the sun. Things that simply were, unquestioning in their existence. It was this very feeling that led to Little Miss Sunshine and Eaves new-found need to create music that would make her feel tectonic, elemental and BIG.

In embracing nature, she also wanted her music to be gloriously, naturally messy, like earthquakes, storms, rivers carving new paths. A kind of wildness that has no concern for being neat or palatable – the way women are often pressured to be. In embracing that chaos, Wilder found not only her sound, but the courage to exist fully, on her own terms.

That spirit comes roaring through on lead single ‘The Great Plains’, an achingly mellifluous track which sees Eaves interrogating her earliest memories spent idolising her older sister – “she used to play quietly and she was very demure, whereas I was so aggressive” – and in lyrics such as “no-one blames the clouds for rain/so take me as I am, tears down my face.” The music video, directed by that very sister, Dora Paphides, sees Eaves loose and luminous in the open countryside, heavily inspired by Little House on the Prairie. WATCH HERE.

“There was one particular world I saw through this whole album – very much shaped by my childhood of reading Little House On The Prairie, of vastness. Of Laura Ingalls-Wilder – who I’m named after – saying how, when she walked across the huge prairie, she felt part of it. That its bigness made her feel big, too.” – Eaves Wilder

Little Miss Sunshine includes previously released singles ‘Mountain Sized’, which purposefully channels the sharp self-awareness of Lily Allen’s ‘The Fear’; ‘Hurricane Girl’ – Eaves’ turn at full ‘cock-rock’ bravado, channelling the swagger and soaring sonics of Pearl Jam and Aerosmith into a gleefully destructive self-portrait; and ‘Everybody Talks’, a comment on modernity’s overwhelm, though inspired by Eaves’ experiences playing support gigs and festivals.

Elsewhere on the record is ‘Daisy Chain Reaction’, whose glistening power pop sheen conceals a lyric about the culture of competitiveness around eating disorders. Meanwhile the queasy mechanised attack of ‘Just Say No’ sees a song built around the brutal truths accrued from Eaves and her friends’ skirmishes with abusive men.

Eaves is fresh from sets at Stockton Calling and a UK headline run supporting Alice Merton, which included a packed-out date at London’s Village Underground. Tomorrow, 18th April she will play a run of shows across the capital as part of Record Store Day, performing at London Dreamhouse, Leyton (11am), Rough Trade East, Shoreditch (3pm), and Dash The Henge, Camberwell (6.30pm). Eaves will hit the summer festival circuit from May, confirmed for sets at the likes of The Great Escape, Get Together Festival, Dot To Dot and Green Man.

Signing to Secretly Canadian when she was just 18, Eaves’ previous project, debut EP Hookey (2023), explored the turbulence of teenage life. While Little Miss Sunshine marks a coming-of-age, it delves deeper, exploring the complex ways girlhood shapes womanhood, also through the lens of neurodivergence.

Possessing a clear depth and passion for sound, Eaves is a genuine music connoisseur, her new album sketching out a new landscape full of her musical heroes: the dreamtime pop of Cocteau Twins, Slowdive and Lush, the full-on rock blast of Jane’s Addiction, and a sister-energy to Wet Leg, CMAT, and Wolf Alice. The result is a rich blend that feels both rooted and current.

Little Miss Sunshine is a masterclass in hyper-femme dream rock, erupting with big 90s-inspired riffs and elemental guitars, all wrapped in Eaves soft, intimate vocal. She crafts a sound of tenderness and power, sweetness and strength, radiating divine feminine energy and a real sense of liberation. The record sees Eaves return at her most raw, observant, charmingly funny and musically fearless.

Eaves Wilder has supported acts such as Kate Nash, The Libertines, Sir Chloe, Divorce and Nadine Shah and has performed at major festivals including Glastonbury (where she made a surprise appearance on The Other Stage), Green Man, The Great Escape, Pitchfork Paris, and Reeperbahn. Her previous project, EP Hookey (2023), was release to critical acclaim, tracks having garnered significant support from BBC Radio 1 and 6Music as well as widespread press. To-date, she’s has love and support from the likes of Rolling Stone UK, CLASH, NME, DIY, DORK, The Line of Best Fit, Rough Trade, MTV, Wonderland, Ones To Watch, The FADER, NOTION, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Under The Radar and more.

LIVE DATES | 2026

18 April – London Dreamhouse, Leyton (11am, RSD)

18 April – Rough Trade East, Shoreditch (3pm, RSD)

18 April – Dash The Henge, Camberwell (6.30pm, RSD)

15 May – The Great Escape, Brighton

16 May – Get Together Festival, Sheffield (with Fat Dog)

23 May – Dot To Dot, Bristol

24 May – Dot To Dot, Nottingham

23 August – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE | TRACKLIST

1. Hurricane Girl

2. Just Say No!

3. Everybody Talks

4. Mountain Sized

5. The Great Plains

6. English Tea

7. Ropeburn

8. LA

9. Daisy Chain Reaction

10. Summer Rolls