Eaves Wilder Releases New Single “Mountain Sized”

North London’s Eaves Wilder unveils euphoric new single “Mountain Sized,” the latest offering from her forthcoming debut album, Little Miss Sunshine, to be released April 17 via Secretly Canadian.

The new track transforms a crisis of purpose into an explosive sense of release. Suspended in uncertainty about who she was and where she was headed, Eaves longed to be unhuman, unfeeling and unmoved. A mountain. A tree. The sky. Things that simply are, unquestioning in their existence, assured of their place in the world. Meanwhile, Eaves was still searching for hers – especially when it came to music.

So she did the only thing she could do, go back to the start, to one of the first songs she ever loved, Lily Allen’s 2009 single “The Fear.” “It’s just one woman casually listing all the worst things about herself, the kind of stuff you should be way too embarrassed to admit.” For Eavie, it was a case of “going even further, to come across as shallow and unlikeable as possible. It was like a last roll of the dice.”

Eaves’ new era launched late last year with “Everybody Talks,” a breakneck, charged-up re-introduction which saw Eaves return at her most raw, observant and musically fearless. Followed by “Hurricane Girl,” a comment on the pressure on women to remain palatable, when a primal streak of chaos may simmer beneath the surface. The track gave rise to the album’s title, Little Miss Sunshine, a satirical nod to a nickname from an ex-boyfriend.

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, hitting pause and questioning her creative direction so intensely she nearly walked away for good (she even, at one point, Googled nunneries). But the distance became a catalyst. Space brought clarity. Her purpose crystallized: to go big – truly big. This “bigness” isn’t about commercial scale but emotional and elemental magnitude.

Removed from the outside world and working in isolation in her shed – where she arranges, writes and produces – she began work on her debut full-length, an escapist creation born within four walls. “I want to make worlds now,” Eaves said of returning to her musical calling.

Possessing a clear depth and passion for sound, Eaves is a genuine music connoisseur, her new album sketching out a new landscape full of Eaves’ 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.

See Eaves Wilder Live:

Mar 18 – Amber’s, Manchester (with Alice Merton)

Mar 19 – Exchange, Bristol (with Alice Merton)

Mar 20 – Village Underground, London (with Alice Merton)

Apr 04 – Stockton Calling, Stockton

May 15 – The Great Escape, Brighton

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

May 23 – Dot To Dot, Bristol

May 24 – Dot To Dot, Nottingham

Aug 23 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons