Sacred Paws are the Glasgow/London duo of Ray Aggs (Trash Kit, Shopping) and Eilidh Rodgers (Golden Grrrls), who took their roots in the punk world and wound it together with myriad influences, from Afrobeat, through pop and post-punk, to create a glorious and unique hybrid. 

Strike A Match, the band’s urgent and infectious first offering, was released on Rock Action Records in 2017 and won the prestigious Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award that same year. It received warm critical acclaim, receiving a 7.7 from Pitchfork who said that the band’s “tightly-wound art punk unspools their anxiety and turns it into something worth celebrating.” That success was quickly capitalised on with another full-length effort, the band’s second LP Run Around The Sun, which was released in 2019.

More than five years have now passed since, and Jump Into Life, the lush and layered new album from Sacred Paws, is proof that such a journey was both necessary and significant. 

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