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Jennifer Walton

A seasoned composer, producer, DJ, and musician, Jennifer Walton has had her fingers in many pies as part of the UK underground music scene: she contributed to caroline's beloved caroline 2 (2025), has produced for Iceboy Violet, performs and DJs with aya and 96 Back as Microplastics, and even performed live drums with Kero Kero Bonito. It was during a 2018 US tour with them when the ideas for Walton's debut album Daughters (2025) began to form – inspired by the strange liminality of touring motel-life, the scenes of wealth disparity she saw, and, most of all, by the life-altering news that her father had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. As such, a transitory sense of evolving grief is a throughline in the record, but Walton's music is not necessarily morbid. Taking the guitar as her instrument of choice, she playfully and artfully disintegrates it into a blurry, woozy, maximal collage of digital sounds. Her wistful and emotive form of hyper pop is a kinetic puzzle of jovial maximalism that's warmly distorted and crunchy with compression. Its minimalistic moments of ambience collide with ambiguously positive swells of energy, as drums clatter and crash, guitars strum, and horns sound around her touching lyrics. Walton performs at Rewire with a live band.