Beth’s Farm is the first single release from Once Upon a Time in Shropshire by London based artist and composer Jerskin Fendrix, composer of the score for the film Poor Things.
The soundtrack led to BAFTA, Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, while Fendrix won an Ivor Novello award, and Film Composer of the Year and Discovery of the Year awards at the 2024 World Soundtrack Awards.
‘Once Upon A Time. . . In Shropshire’ is a love letter to something that once existed – a shining, rose-tinted childhood and the lives that made it. It posits that grief is complex and memory is intoxicating – and that Shropshire can contain the entire world.
Fendrix says: “I wrote this album during a period of sudden and unrelated deaths. A friend, family members, animals, and eventually my father. My album about Shropshire is a twofold testament. Looking back on the world where I grew up, its beauty and innocence and wonder – then watching it become corrupted, death by death, until the entire dream was shattered.”
The sweet flush of first love and rampant 2000s cultural references colour Beth’s Farm, a song that’s punctuated with twinkles that occasionally warp like your memory reaching for something you can’t quite recall.
Listen here:
