[Official Video] Gabrielle Aplin - Home

Last week we featured young new singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin on the blog - we loved her tender, ethereal vocals - very much the makings of the next Ellie Goulding, if ever there was one.

There's now a video for Home, one of the standout numbers from her upcoming EP and its blurry shots of windswept beaches - waves crashing against the pastel shades of sandy shores - is the perfect fit for the delicate artistic beauty of her music.

Understated but never dull, Home is the sound of rural beauty - England's green and pleasant land brought to life in song form.

The Home EP is released on the 9th January.

You can catch Gabrille Aplin on tour at the following dates:

February 2012
Wed  29th                CARDIFF, Clwb Ifor Bach

March 2012
Thu    1st                   PORTSMOUTH, Cellars
Sat     3rd                  LIVERPOOL, Ink
Mon   5th                  GLASGOW, King Tuts
Tue     6th                  NEWCASTLE - Cluny 2
Wed   7th                  MANCHESTER, Sound Control
Thu     8th                  BIRMINGHAM, The Rainbow
Sat     10th                 LEEDS, Cockpit 3
Sun     11th                BRIGHTON, Komedia
Mon   12th                 BRISTOL, Thekla Top Bar
Tue     13th                LONDON, Bush Hall

Introducing... Gabrielle Aplin

With over 16 million YouTube views, it's fair to say 19 year old singer/songwriter Gabrielle Aplin has got her career off to a rather good start.

Citing her influences as The Fray and Joni Mitchell, her affectation for gentle, lullaby-like acoustic melodies is clear - the title track from her Home EP is a beautiful, sweeping piece of music with a maturity far beyond Aplin's scant years.

There's an essence of pastoral innocence to Aplin's songs, carried so well in the clarity and warmth of her voice that speaks with real connectivity - Did we mention she does up-tempo too? The rollicking Mumford & Sons-esque gallop of Keep Pushing Me sounds like obvious single material, a marked statement of intent in a post Ellie Goulding world.

Following two previous EP release over the course of the last fourteen months (both of which charted highly on iTunes), the Home EP is clearly the sound of a bright, up and coming talent keen not to rest on her laurels. As the BBC Introducing video of Never Fade shows, Aplin might be young, but the well-roundedness of her tracks speaks of an eagerness ready to speak out to the masses.

The Home EP is released on January 9th.