“There’s an inherent restlessness in the way that I write and think about sound”, says Nandi Rose Plunkett of her upcoming EP as Half Waif, form/a, a sonic meditation on notions of home. However, for Plunkett, the search for origins is an exercise in forging connections between disjointed things. As the daughter of refugee parents, home became for Plunkett a complex of unfixed places – “places that I latch onto, that inspire me, that fuse themselves to me”. Her songs, like the places of her life, also strive to reach an ever-elusive cohesive whole. ‘Severed Logic’ is Half Waif’s rallying cry for lateral thinking; a homeopathic approach to identity. “Knowing every move is a reaction” sings Plunkett over a driving synthpop bassline worthy of The Knife, inviting us to find connections in the unlikeliest phenomena. Half Waif will play at the Hug and Pint on the 25th of January as part of Glasgow’s Celtic Connections city-wide festival.

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