I was aspiring to, not quite math rock, but more adventurous songs with key changes and time changes. This isn’t Hatherley’s first dalliance with an alias. Circa 2012, after a few years out of the indie spotlight, she re-emerged as Sylver Tongue.
“I wanted to be a bit unknown and escape the ‘Charlotte from Ash’ thing,” she offers of a guise that had more of a garish 80s vibe, with, Hatherley notes, “lots of Mad Max fake fur and leather”. This Traveller incarnation is, by contrast, “less 80s revisited, more weird and arty, more [Soviet filmmaker] Tarkovsky and Roeg”.
For the interview in a bar in London’s Barbican Centre, Hatherley, sad to report, doesn’t arrive in full Traveller regalia. Instead, she is wearing an electric blue shirt and corset which,…
