Polly Paulusma follows up her critically acclaimed 2021 album "Invisible Music" with "The Pivot On Which The World Turns" out September 30th via One Little Independent folk subsidiary Wild Sound. Affectionately shortened to "Pivot", the album marks a return to her singular brand of insightful songs that, in their subject matter, roam around the badlands of love, sex and parenthood, death and grief, failure and success, violence and healing. Most poignantly the album focuses on the roles of women, in our lives and across history, from a variety of perspectives. As always, she delights in the telling of stories, with littered spoken word aiding her as she utilizes infectious melodies and a light delivery to explore her characters. Each track on the LP examines a different aspect of life that women play, and "charts a development for me through all the roles I pivot on in a day, a week, a year, a decade". "Snakeskin" represents the daughter, "Back Of Your Hand" is the love interest, "Dirty Circus" the mother and so on. "I truly believe, having travelled the last few years, having endured grief and horror and having discovered and pivoted on all these people that I am capable of being, that by learning how to love, and re-learning, and learning again, so many of the wartier and knobblier parts of me can be forgiven, and translated into something better". The album began life as a 24-track collaboration between friends producing a song a month to keep Polly songwriting while she finished her PHD, as such it features co-writes with Kathryn Williams, David Ford, and the novelist Laura Barnett. "I culled down the original burgeoning song pile, and then some new songs popped out. They keep doing that, but you have to draw a line somewhere." "Pivot" is the fifth studio album and the ninth release from the indie-folk stalwart whose thought-provoking albums since 2004"s "Scissors In My Pocket" have earned her plaudits from international champions as far flung as Nic Harcourt at KCRW in LA and Michele Manzotti in Italy, as well as homegrown accolades from Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2) and The Guardian.