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Artiest/Band: Sound of the Sirens,
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• The House That We Grew in, the latest album by Exeter, Devon-based singer-songwriting duo, Sound of the Sirens, which is scheduled for release on January 15 2027.
The House That We Grew in finds Hannah Walker and Abbe Wood looking back in order to move forward - a deeply personal reckoning with the past and the process of letting go, built around the seismic experience of becoming parents.
Across its ten tracks the album takes in birth, parenthood, life, death and the odd existential crisis, before landing on the one thing that has carried the duo through all of it: the strength of a friendship that holds fast through thick and thin. "It's basically a public therapy session”, the pair admit - and The House That I Grew In wears that honesty, and openly. As always, Hannah and Abbe write with their hearts on their sleeves, unafraid to share the messier, more private corners of their lives through their music.
The title captures that duality. The House That I Grew In is both literal and emotional - a nod to the homes and families Hannah and Abbe grew up in, and to the new ones they've since built as parents themselves. It's an album about looking at where you started, understanding how it shaped you, and deciding what to carry forward and what to finally put down.
The most immediate thing about The House That I Grew In is that Sound of the Sirens sound, for the first time, feels like a full band rather than a duo. Hannah and Abbe have flirted with full-band arrangements and different production approaches before, but this album feels like something else entirely - less a duo experimenting with extra instrumentation, but more a band that has properly evolved into being one. The songwriting underneath is unmistakably Sound of the Sirens, but the sound wrapped around it has grown.
It's a shift that mirrors the years behind it. Since forming in Exeter in 2011, Hannah and Abbe have built their career as a byword for honest, harmony-driven songwriting - evolving not only as musicians but as people, through marriage, motherhood, love, loss and everything that comes with it. That evolution runs through both the writing and the sound of this record: while Sound of the Sirens have long been filed under "folk", the pair have always described themselves more simply as an acoustic singer-songwriting duo, their music slipping across genre lines. On The House That I Grew In that cross-pollination goes further than ever, with hints of country creeping into the mix in a way longtime fans won't have heard from them before, sitting alongside the upbeat and melancholy contrasts that have always defined their writing.
Where earlier records built their arrangements around Hannah and Abbe's own guitars, mandolin and percussion, augmented by session players brought in to fill things out, The House That I Grew In was written and recorded with a full band mentality from the ground up. The result is a record with noticeably more space in it: fuller low end, layered guitars, and arrangements that breathe in a way that simply wasn't possible when it was just the two of them. It's the sound of a duo who have spent years quietly expanding their palette finally arriving somewhere new.
Sound of the Sirens' songs have always carried serious undertones alongside a genuine sense of fun, but The House That I Grew In feels weightier - a ten-track therapy session set against music that's often upbeat and instinctively danceable. That contrast is where the album lives: arrangements that make you want to move sitting against lyrics heavy enough to make dancing feel almost wrong. It's a bittersweet balancing act, and one that captures exactly where Hannah and Abbe are in their lives right now - reflecting on where they've come from, reckoning with who they've become, and, ultimately, choosing to let go.
For all the loss, change and soul-searching that runs through The House That I Grew In, the album doesn't end in uncertainty. It ends with gratitude. Hannah and Abbe have navigated the last few years of their lives - and of this record - side by side, and that bond is woven through the album as much as any single theme. The message, ultimately, is a simple one: that through thick and thin, you can get through anything in life if you have a strong friendship behind you. After ten tracks of birth, death, parenthood, and existential crisis, it's friendship that Sound of the Sirens choose to end on
Comprised of Hannah Walker and Abbe Wood, Sound of the Sirens have spent well over a decade carving out a distinctive place in the UK's acoustic and folk scene from their home in Exeter, Devon - building a devoted following on the strength of tight harmonies, emotionally direct lyrics and a warmth that translates as readily to festival crowds as it does to intimate venues. Since forming in 2011, the duo has built their reputation the old-fashioned way: through relentless touring, word-of-mouth, and songs that don't flinch from telling the truth. The House That I Grew In marks their most personal and musically expansive record yet and their first to genuinely sound like the work of a full band - the sound of two people who have grown up, in every sense, together.
The first single from the album, the title track, is out now, with two more scheduled to follow - ‘Above the Clouds’ on December 4 and ‘The Summit’ on January 8, all with accompanying videos.
In support of the album Sound of the Sirens will be touring the UK from January 15
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