Described as a cross between the Elysian Quartet and possessed Brontë sisters teasing an unsuspecting dinner party (Foxy Digitalis), Collectress are a quartet of long-term multi-instrumentalist collaborators from London and Brighton.

Making both composed and improvised music, Collectress utilise voice, toy instruments and found sound samples alongside layers of more traditional, often romantic, strings, keys and woodwind - violin, viola, cello, flute, piano and guitar.

With a collective biography of collaborations which includes the likes of Bat For Lashes, Patrick Wolf, Philip Selway (Radiohead) and Penguin Café Orchestra, the four members of Collectress come together to craft music both daring and unique, but also compellingly familiar and filmic.

Collectress are Quinta (violin, viola, musical saw, keyboard, recorder, vocals), Caroline Weeks (flute, vocals, guitar, keyboard), Rebecca Waterworth (‘cello, keyboard, vocals), and Alice Eldridge (‘cello, custom software, field recordings, vocals).

Recent and forthcoming invitations include: performances at The National Portrait Gallery, Union Chapel & King’s Place; live film scores at the Roundhouse, Greenman Festival & National Portrait Gallery, WOW festival at London's South Bank, and an installation and performance in response to the Bergman Österberg Archive, Stephen Lawrence Gallery.

Mondegreen, due for release on 24th March 2014, is their first album. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.