Linda Smith
Linda Smith at Bishops' House, Sheffield
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About the show
Linda Smith is a pioneer of home recording who self released her music originally on cassette starting in 1987. In the early 90’s, indie labels Slumberland and Harriet Records expanded her reach with the release of two seven inch eps. Recently, Brooklyn NY label Captured Tracks has reissued two complete albums on vinyl and she has begun to tour in the US and internationally for the first time.
Paste magazine called her “a hidden treasure of America's pop underground”, while Jangle Pop Hub has written that “Essentially this is the best bedroom pop you are ever likely to hear, directly from an age that did not really know what to do with it”.
Persona are a Post Punk minimalist duo, confronting the everyday head on.
Inhabiting a space somewhere between the The Slits and Young Marble Giants.
Featuring - Linda Smith
Linda Smith wrote and recorded her music on 4-track cassette and 8-track reel to reel tape at home from 1986 to 2001. During that time it was released on her own Preference label, as well as on such labels as Harriet, Slumberland, and Feel Good All Over. In 2021, Captured Tracks released a compilation of her recordings on vinyl, and in 2024 reissued two complete albums, "Nothing Else Matters" and "I So Liked Spring".