With I Found a Place in the Woods, British-born chamber-folk artist Roxy Rawson makes a breathtaking return—one that feels both haunted by the past and fiercely alive with possibility. Produced by the acclaimed composer Jherek Bischoff, the single drifts between folklore and confession, drawing inspiration from The Three Ravens as it traces a path out of grief, through solitude, and toward renewal. Rawson has long been praised for her “beautifully peculiar” artistry and her “breathtaking” musical craft, and here she distils all of that distinctiveness into one of her most affecting works yet.
Vocally, Rawson remains a rare force: ethereal but never fragile, delicate yet commandingly bright. Her voice lands somewhere between Joanna Newsom’s spectral storytelling and Agnes Obel’s icy elegance, yet she sounds like no one but herself. The track’s arrangement matches her intensity—violin lines that quiver like breath in cold air, piano that swells like distant light, and Bischoff’s cinematic touch adding a quiet, otherworldly depth. What emerges is a piece that feels both rooted in ancient woodland fairy-tale tradition and unmistakably modern, shaped by Rawson’s chamber-folk sensibilities and her background in London’s anti-folk scene.
The emotional weight behind the song is impossible to ignore. After years of being bed-bound with Lyme Disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rawson’s return to music is nothing short of remarkable. Her journey—spanning Paris conservatory training, London’s iconic venues, support slots for Sia, global cultural work, and the founding of Berlin’s Feral Folk Festival—has sculpted a voice and vision unlike any other. I Found a Place in the Woods is not just a single; it’s a quiet reclamation, a moment of stillness carved from survival. As she looks ahead to her forthcoming 2026 album Bright Star, this release sets the stage for what promises to be her most ambitious and defining work to date: music that is uncompromising, exquisite, and undeniably her own.
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