ELIZA CARTHY & THE RESTITUTION - Frenemies (Hem Hem Records)

*Release Date 30th October 2026*

"Dismissed by your mates, and ignored by loving spouse?Are you slave to
many goblins, and can't escape the house?" - Welcome to Frenemies, the
new original album from Eliza Carthy and the Restitution.

Eiza Carthy MBE has been the multi award- winning irreverent, passionate, diffcult face of English folk punk and traditional music since the early 1990s. Born into a formidable musical dynasty, her mother Norma was one of The Watersons and her father Martin Carthy is a hugely infuential singer and guitarist, the incredible range of traditional and contemporary musicians who were part of the extended Waterson/Carthy world helped her develop her own unique approach to music.

She has headed the grit, beauty, humour, heartbreak, poetry and dance of the form for over thirty years, and is here with another of her trademark fulcrum albums.

Here she represents the loudest, loneliest women in love, in her third era and refecting on motherhood, betrayal and forgiveness. Fury about the state of the world, support for the LGBTQIA+ community, laughing and letting the Gen X hang out, with her chief co-writer and co-producer Ben Seal (Martin Carthy & ???), and her virtuoso long-term
band.

Fifteen tracks, over an hour of music. Welcome back to the album as an art form.

Tracklist:
1. Call U In
2. A Tree Used 2 Grow Here
3. Frenemies
4. Mr Sits in the Dark
5. Swing 4 U
6. U From the Future
7. Moisturise
8. Eat The Weak
9. Honey
10. Delighted
11. Never Again
12. The Tick
13. Except 4 U
14. Eggshell
15. The Wine Song