London- and Paris-based artist Margot White merges music, poetry, and analog sound design in her forthcoming album and poetry collection.
Margot White is a London- and Paris-based musician-poet operating at the volatile edge where song, language, and sensation collapse into one another. Her forthcoming album, recorded at Salvation Studios, channels emotional extremity through precision, intuition, and obsessive sound design. The record was produced by legendary engineer and producer Phill Brown, whose career includes landmark work with Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, Bob Marley, and Led Zeppelin. Brown’s gift for capturing emotional immediacy with sonic depth defines the album’s atmosphere, intimate, volatile, and alive.
A Sound Rooted in Emotion and Craft
Recorded at Salvation Studios in the United Kingdom, White’s upcoming album was produced by acclaimed engineer and producer Phill Brown, known for his work with artists including Pink Floyd, Talk Talk, Bob Marley, and Led Zeppelin. Brown’s approach to recording, focused on emotional clarity and sonic depth, helped shape the atmosphere of the project, which balances intimacy, tension, and layered instrumentation.
Salvation Studios has become recognized for hosting artists associated with the evolving British music scene, including Wet Leg, The Cure, and Foals. White’s work enters that creative environment from a distinctly international perspective. Raised in Austin, Texas, and now living between London and Paris, she channels themes of movement, identity, memory, and emotional transformation into her music.
The Connection Between Music and Poetry
The album is conceptually entwined with White’s forthcoming poetry collection, Angelisms, a completed manuscript currently under consideration, with the artist in active conversation as she seeks the right editorial partner for its long-term literary life. Angelisms is built around a language of real and invented words that name otherwise unspoken states of being, emotional microclimates, perceptual shifts, moments of rupture and clarity. These “angelisms” operate as vessels: intuitive yet exacting, somatic rather than abstract.
While the poetry leans inward, the album renders these ideas in motion. Lyrically more narrative and story-driven, the record marks White’s emergence as a co-producer deeply attuned to sound design, texture, and emotional architecture. Her approach is shaped by classical music studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she studied experimental film score composition and sound design alongside classical guitar performance, working directly with tape machines in the Brian Eno Studio. She later attended a Mix With The Masters session in Avignon led by the late Steve Albini, further cementing her devotion to analog recording, live musicianship, and the physical warmth of sound made in real time.
Influences and Creative Development
Sonically, the album speaks to listeners drawn to Charli XCX, Clairo, Black Country, New Road, Girlsweetvoiced as well as the masterful wave of new female pop artists like Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter, artists who balance vulnerability with structure, intellect with immediacy, and pop instinct with emotional risk. There is a gothic romanticism here, a sense of drama and exposure, rock music that allows tenderness, chaos, and precision to coexist.
White’s influences span generations and disciplines: the narrative urgency of Bob Dylan, the melodic and emotional clarity of Joni Mitchell, the poetic austerity of Leonard Cohen, the harmonic invention of The Beatles, the physical force of Miles Davis, the rhythmic intelligence of Steve Gadd, and the compositional daring of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, alongside the raw cultural voltage of Patti Smith and The Rolling Stones.
Building a Multidisciplinary Artistic Career
Alongside her music career, White has also established herself as an award-winning poet. Her work has appeared in publications including Texas Women’s Quarterly and Moof Magazine, and she is a recipient of the Balcones Poetry Prize. Across both literary and musical mediums, her work consistently centers on emotional precision, craftsmanship, and immersive storytelling.
As anticipation builds around both releases, White continues sharing behind-the-scenes creative material and updates surrounding upcoming live performances, where she plans to present music and poetry together in a unified live format. These performances are expected to reflect the same blending of disciplines that defines her recorded work, combining spoken word, live instrumentation, and atmospheric production into a singular artistic experience.
White’s upcoming projects arrive at a moment when audiences are increasingly drawn to artists who move fluidly between creative mediums while maintaining a distinct personal voice. Through her forthcoming album and poetry collection, she continues developing a body of work rooted in emotional honesty, literary influence, and detailed sonic craftsmanship.
For more updates on Margot White’s music, poetry, and upcoming performances, follow her on Instagram at @margot__white.