Wearing All White Like An Angel: Saskia leaves the village, keeps the creek
Saskia's debut EP turns lockdown piano and left-leaning R&B into five songs about outgrowing a place you loved.
BY JOLT Staff · OCT 11 2026 · 2 min readSaskia's debut EP is five songs about the distance between who you were and who you are now. 'Wearing All White Like An Angel' runs just over eighteen minutes on Black Butter, built on the piano that got her noticed, then pulled at from the edges. The voice stays the same; everything under it moves.
Devon born, London based. She arrived during lockdown with stripped-back piano performances on TikTok and no band behind her. 'Pq' came in 2019, 'The Noise' in 2025, and the Black Butter signing followed. Don Toliver and Rema have both sampled that voice, which is a strange thing to carry while singing about a creek.
“An ode to my childhood home. I think this song encapsulates the main feeling I had when making this project, which was a sense of longing for a place and time that no longer existed.”
The EP was made with producer Bob (Mackenzie), and Peter Gregson plays strings on the title track. Saskia calls herself 'a happy girl making sad music'. She describes the record as the pain of moving away from who you once were and the longing for a time that no longer exists.
Most of it is keys, voice and empty space. The opener plays as a lullaby, and a drum and bass pulse turns up once to break the run of piano. Five tracks, no padding.
'creek water' is the childhood home song, written from a tiny village; things change, the creek does not. 'saysomething (bite)' came out of frustration with her phone and the digital world, kept as a reminder to keep going. 'sickofmyself' is the one she found hardest to write, reluctant to put anything that dark on record. 'tongue' is the strangest thing she has made, and she credits Bob (Mackenzie). The title track took the most iterations and was written for several people at once. She calls it the truth and the right place to stop.
It sits with piano records that keep the room in, and with the quiet end of left-leaning R&B. If you found her on a phone screen in 2020 and stayed, this is the payoff. If you need a beat that commits, three of these five will drift past.
What holds it back is 'saysomething (bite)'. Frustration at a phone is hard to make sing, and 4:20 is a long time to stand next to the same idea. It is the longest track here and the one least changed by its own ending.
That is a 3.5: good, with better obviously in reach. Five songs with a clear head, one stuck in the middle, and a voice worth more than the space she leaves it. Play 'creek water' once. Play the title track twice.
