Joker’s Daughter is the collaboration of vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Helena Costas with respected artist and producer, Danger Mouse.

Born in London but Greek Cypriot by origin, Helena Costas began studying the violin from 7 years old and went on to teach herself guitar and keyboards. Knowing what she wanted from an early age she learnt the art of production, and grew more and more confident through playing gigs in London.

In 2003 Costas began sending her home recordings to Danger Mouse and this continued as his career grew. After realising how similar their passion for music was they launched a collaboration, which they called Joker’s Daughter, which is named after one of Costas's many personae.

‘Lucid’ is the new single taken from the recently released album The Last Laugh.

This is an upbeat track, which has a fun energy surrounding it. A feel of urgency is brought to this track with the mix of electronica, strings and backing vocals.

Costas's vocals are light and mesmerizing and this song moves folk music into the modern day era.

This is available on digital download with two new B-sides, ‘Sophia’ and ‘My Left Ear’. Unfortunately, the copy I was sent didn’t contain these tracks so I cannot comment on them, which is a bit of a shame.

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Helena Rea