Matilda Cole

Matilda Clementine Isitt Cole is an English musician and actress. Born in Sussex, she is the daughter of film director Nigel Cole and the actress Kate Isitt and appeared in several of the former's works in the 2010s. In 2020, she signed a record deal and released the EPs Milk Teeth, The High Dive, and Pomegranate and multiple singles including a cover version of The Weeknd's "The Hills". She is an original member of Loud LDN and makes indie-pop music.

Life and career

Early life and film career Matilda Clementine Isitt Cole was born in Sussex, and Camden Town before moving to Brighton. Her mother is Kate Isitt, an actress, and her father is Nigel Cole, In 2010, she played Emily in Made in Dagenham, and in 2012 she played a bridesmaid in The Wedding Video, both of which were directed by her father; she later played Madeleine in his 2019 film short Wisteria Cottage.

Music career She realised she wanted to be a full-time musician aged seven after seeing Miley Cyrus perform at the O2 Arena, and wrote her first song in the car journey back to her hotel; Aged sixteen, after putting a cover on SoundCloud, she was messaged by a London-based talent manager, who took her on as a client, In November 2020, she released "The Clouds", a song about her teenage friendships and relationships for which a music video was directed by Amy Becker-Burnett, and then the following January, she released "Be There", a song about extreme affection for someone to the point of ego death. In June 2021, she released Milk Teeth, an EP written about her adolescence, with the title being a reference to deciduous teeth.

Cole then released a cover of the Weeknd's "The Hills", intended as a stopgap between EPs, which she had written during a writing session in Copenhagen in October 2020 and accompanied it with a music video set at a Halloween house party. In February 2022, she released "Again", about allowing herself to be repeatedly treated poorly, which was accompanied by a music video directed by Amy Becker-Burnett, and then the following month she released The High Dive, an EP, which featured "Bite Down".

Cole then joined Loud LDN, a collective of London-based women and genderqueer musicians founded in May 2022, as an original member. She followed the track later that month with "Mortal", a track about queer love, and then that July with "Shiny Things", a track about the way some men use women as status symbols. In August, she followed the following month with the EP Pomegranate, which took its name from the Greek myth of Persephone, in which she ate six pomegranate seeds. the following month, in an interview with Wordplay, she stated that "the biggest influence" on her writing was from the way Hozier wrote, and that she drew "a lot of influence" from the folk and rock music that her father had played when she was growing up. while in 2022 Eva Pentel of Fword described her as an "indie-pop" artist. "Afternoon Haze" (2021) "Camden" (2021) "Halloween" (2021) "Again" (2022) "Big Mouth" (2024) "Mortal" (2024) "Shiny Things" (2024)