Poesie’s Nature Mother has me thinking of a new Kate Bush

I love how much personality Poesie gives these songs. Nature Mother has ecological anger, sexual mischief and a ballad built around a fox call. The strange details get as much attention as the choruses. I’ve enjoyed following the singles, and there’s a particular pleasure in hearing them as a complete EP.

Her second EP arrives on 30th October 2026. Across five tracks, she writes about ecology, desire, loneliness and technology. Each song has its own character, though her concern for humanity and the natural world runs throughout.

I’ve followed Poesie since ‘Hunter-Gatherer’, where industrial bass and soaring harmonies accompanied a wish to reconnect with nature. Nature Mother develops concerns already present in her debut. The cheeky humour I enjoyed on ‘Lost Romantic’ survives too, alongside a greater appetite for guitars and character.

‘Curious Eve’ opens with the attitude I’ve come to love in her music. Crunchy guitars, organ and a rap accompany a modern Eve whose fury reaches beyond the creation story. The chorus has the immediate appeal of pop, while the character lets Poesie be furious and theatrical. I want to see her perform it live.

There’s a different pleasure in ‘Undress Me’. A flirtatious bassline and live drums which change time signatures accompany desire delivered with confidence and nerves. I love the humour, especially the question of eggs or cereal after all the sexual excitement. Letting breakfast into the song makes the intimacy sweeter. I hear affection in the ordinary question as well as the declarations of love.

A fox call in the middle of the city

‘London’ gives the sequence a welcome pause. Poesie leaves her lead without backing vocals, surrounded by dreamy guitars, organ and two clarinets. A manipulated fox mating call supplies electronic percussion instead of conventional drums. It’s an ingenious choice for a song about city life and a longing for something wilder.

The clarinets give her solitary voice company without removing the loneliness. After ‘Undress Me’, the lack of backing voices makes the isolation particularly striking.

Then ‘Circuit Break’ wants people back in a room together. Glitching synthesisers and a structure which moves beyond a standard verse and chorus carry her frustration with technological control. I enjoy how bluntly she interrupts the anxiety with an invitation to dance. The anger has somewhere physical to go.

The closing title track returns to the scale of ‘Curious Eve’. Distorted guitars, drums and choral textures accompany a vocal which moves from flirtation to operatic high notes. Poesie presents Mother Nature as desirable, nurturing and frightening, while humanity wants to take everything. A billionaire’s late apology makes the selfishness painfully clear.

Here, the Kate Bush comparison feels earned by the character work and those operatic notes. I think Poesie could be a new Kate Bush. ‘Nature Mother’ has the quirkiness, a driving theme and the conviction to make the whole performance belong to its subject. I love her willingness to sing something this theatrical with complete commitment.

Nature Mother review

For me, the EP’s strongest choice is leaving room for pleasure within its environmental concerns. ‘Undress Me’ belongs beside ‘Curious Eve’. Enjoying another person, feeling lonely in a city and questioning humanity’s treatment of the planet become related experiences. I hear the desire for a better life throughout, expressed through different characters and situations.

Poesie is an outstanding artist, and the quieter ‘London’ helps convince me as much as the title track. She doesn’t need to make every song enormous to hold my attention. I want people to hear Nature Mother in full, with room for the ballad as well as the big theatrical finale.

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