Bio


Flora Hibberd was born in London, and lives in Paris. In 2019 she released her debut EP, 'The Absentee,' through London-based indie Clearlight Records. Critics described being 'swept away by her deeply moving emotional presence,' (Folk Radio UK) and called Flora 'a marvellous newcomer to the realm of indie folk.' (PopMatters) In september 2020 she started working with Paris-based producer Victor Claass, putting out a second EP, 'Archipelago,' followed in 2021 by the short album 'Hold.' Her debut album 'Swirl' is out since January 17th, 2025 on 22Twenty.


‘It doesn’t get any better than this, haunting, beautiful and timeless… I can’t wait to hear more.’
Folk Radio UK


‘One of the foremost faces of a rising movement in contemporary folk music’
For Folk’s Sake


‘A spectacular newcomer'
Beehive Candy


Photo by Juliette Fournillon

I Let You Go

Your house being the last
Before the infinite
Your body being the last
Body I’ve known
I’ve known them well
I’ve held them close
I let them go
I’ve known them well
I’ve held them close
I let them go

I stumbled out of my bed
Into another day
Remembering what you had said
A long time ago
I’ve known you well
I’ve held you close
I let you go
I’ve known you well
I’ve held you close
I let you go

Drink coffee out on the porch
Scroll through the endless news
In Paris you’re still fast asleep
This much I know
I know you well
I held you close
I let you go
I know you well
I held you close
I let you go

Last year we would have been walking
To the neighbourhood bar
Another week end without you
Wherever you are
I knew you well
I held you close
I let you go
I knew you well
I held you close
I let you go

Shenandoah

Shenandoah, how long will I miss you
Tonight you're far away as the Kentucky moon

And I know you hold a secret of mine or two
Tonight little darling my heart's with you

Wabash between us feel the cannon ball blues
Maybe I really did see the light
Halfway to heaven's fine
But I could not be sure
Halfway is all there ever was

And I know you hold a secret of yours or two
Tonight, little darlin, my heart's with you

There's just so much a man can miss
And just no end to what he can regret
And I'm holding on to whatever hope shows through
Tonight little darling my heart's with you
Tonight little darling my heart's with you

Headlights

Headlights on an endless road
Nocturnal eyes blink once and I
Am alone again but always beside me
The spectre the terrible ghost of you


Slyly I wait for a judgement that never
Arrives I will always arrive at his side
What is this companion a lucid dream dead
But alive his transparent knife in my side


And I hate to tell you coldly
But the melodrama suits me
And I don’t know how to do it
Any other way I promised you so
Many things so many ways
To live this life but with me
Or without me you will always be ok


We’re in the deep where the spectre sleeps
All round the car the shadows leap and fall away
In my mind’s eye they’re dancing forever
Behind the rough heather and all through the trees


Everything a transaction a give and a take
And up rises the ghost and my heart starts to break
O I gave you my love but I took it away
And you gave me everything and promised to stay


Well the trees as I left you they started to burn
And the wind it rose high and the reservoir burst
And the signal came all down the line
If you turn around now you might still have the time