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Stemming from the solo project of Yorkshire-born songwriter John Patrick Elliott, The Little Unsaid has evolved into a diverse four-piece with a reputation for soulful songwriting, genre-defying arrangements and impassioned live shows.

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Stemming from the solo project of Yorkshire-born multi-instrumentalist and songwriter John Patrick Elliott, The Little Unsaid’s genre-hopping homemade recordings quickly drew the attention of renowned producers and long-term collaborators Sonny Johns (Ali Farka Touré, Portico Quartet), Graeme Stewart (Radiohead) and Brett Shaw (Florence and the Machine), resulting in a series of critically-acclaimed album releases, extensive UK and European tours, and the building of a die-hard international following.

By 2015 the project had evolved into an ensemble of diverse musicians featuring London Contemporary Orchestra violist Alison D’Souza (strings), Mariya Brachkova (synths and backing vocals) and Tim Heymerdinger (drums). Creating ‘some of the most soul-searching, brutally self-aware music around’ (KLOF Mag), the band earned a reputation for impassioned and electrifying live performances, becoming a regular feature at major festivals including Glastonbury, and receiving radio play from the likes of Guy Garvey and Iggy Pop.

In 2017 The Little Unsaid won the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award judged by a panel of industry legends including Four Tet, Floating Points and Gilles Peterson.  

The band celebrates their ten year anniversary with a new album of songs - ‘Stay Fragile All Across This Cold Frontier’ - to be released September 26th 2025, born from improvised sessions recorded aboard a Lightship on the River Thames. Says John Elliott: “The album is about frontiers - actual journeys we make crossing into some new landscape of our lives, a new chapter, but it’s also about the frontiers within us that we have no choice but to cross if we want to move on.”

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“Bold and different...Joni Mitchell, RoyHarper, a touch of Radiohead...stretches boundaries” The Guardian

“A stunning interpretation of contemporary chaos...a gorgeouswhiplash of delirium and hazy reveries.” The Line Of Best Fit

“Entrancing... songwriting of a real rich quality, all held together by an intensity of approach, by a focus on the emotional weight music can carry” Clash

“Utterly life affirming. Most of all it’s there in the songs - stadium-sized epics played to a small room, songs with feet anchored to the earth, gazing at the moon. Those songs make The Little Unsaid almost impossible to categorise. They’re post-folk-weird-jazz-prog-rock-alt.pop and they’re fantastic” B 24/7

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