WHO ARE GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT?
Gawain and the Green Knight are a homemade valentine to that cute ghost in your attic. They’re a Brooklyn-based band, which is maybe why they want their songs to give you that same sweet, achy-chest feeling they get when walking past apartment windows that are lit up at night.
Made up of married folks Alexia Antoniou (any pronouns) and Mike O’Malley (he/him), Gawain and the Green Knight have been performing around NYC since January 2018, singing about their affection for little human moments and their healthy fear of death. But, you know- in a cute way.
Sit a little while their two EPs- Ghosties and A Sleeping Place- or take a listen to their new single, “Bright and Bleeding.”
People are saying kind things!
“Gawain and The Green Knight ponder mortality on moving Indie-Folk EP, ‘A Sleeping Place.’” -AMERICAN SONGWRITER
“Creative, strange, beautiful.” -TWO STORY MELODY
“Grim, sweet, elegant… Gawain and the Green Knight stand out from the indie folk crowd in the passion and panache they bring to their characters” - MERRY-GO-ROUND MAGAZINE
“Antoniou’s deeply emotional delivery affects us palpably, resonating in the depths of our bodies and souls.” - FOLK ALLEY
“ So far, it seems Antoniou’s vocal performance can sell any story on its own, but it’s still exciting to hear the duo inhabit ambitious instrumental settings as they iterate on age-old stories with wit, whimsy, and heart.” -THE ALL SCENE EYE
“Gawain and the Green Knight…might be called a folk duo but that would just be a simplification. A more accurate description would be storytellers or maybe conjurers or musical alchemists. “ - AMERICAN PANCAKE
“Inescapably beautiful” -IMPERFECT FIFTHS
”Her songs conjure up vivid historical humans living vivid human moments… a kind of troubadour feminism.” - GAB ROD BLOG
“Melancholic and uplifting” -FOLKING
“Honest and exciting… these guys have their own distinctive sound and approach, creating songs with a wonderful literary quality.” - MICHAEL DOHERTY’S MUSIC LOG
“Every now and again a track takes hold of you that's completely different from anything else that you've listened to - I think that's the case with today's track of the day by New York-based Gawain and the Green Knight… they create haunting, beautiful, magnificent music.” - FOLKABLE MUSIC