- 11
- 11
- 2026
- 07.00
- pm
Hey! Manchester Presents Flora Hibberd
- £13
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Like a textile artist, Flora Hibberd weaves layers of meaning into her music. Born in London, she has
called Paris home since the age of eighteen. As likely to veer into guitar or synth-driven pop as to
take up a 17th century traditional, the songs pulse with surreal allusions and mundane emotions, a
tapestry of everyday life shot through with cosmic signs. Hibberd sees her songwriting as a walk in a
strangely familiar neighbourhood, revealing and reveling in the oblique and the mystic.
Her acclaimed debut album Swirl (2025, 22TWENTY) was recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and
praised by press internationally, including Le Monde, who hailed it as one of the standout indie-folk
releases of the year, and KEXP, who hailed her last release as "a timeless collection of sweeping folk-
pop". With her haunting melodies, literary lyricism, and magnetic live presence, Flora Hibberd has
quickly established herself as one of the most compelling new voices on the scene.
Hot on the heels of her acclaimed 2025 album Swirl, Flora Hibberd’s new record, Mammoth gets
weirder. Produced by The National’s Ben Lanz between a Basque mountain and the Paris suburbs,
the album is peopled with ghosts of history and prehistory that roam the present, to stare into the
future with a clear and unblinking eye. Echoes of Lanz’s trombone and longtime collaborator Victor
Claass’ feverish guitar, and whispers of familiar voices drift down from the hill, the swirling mists of
an album that is at once more energetically pop, and more odd and disquieting, than what came
before.



