Harland is now releasing under Shelley Harland, her full name. The idea that she had a future as an artist, never occurred to her, when she moved to New York from her London, UK, home. With her musician boyfriend off on tour, in her Brooklyn apartment she found herself alone with a four track recorder, a beaten up acoustic guitar & cockroaches. So she began writing. Never trained on an instrument, she taught herself composition by ear. Her first attempts were a collection of haunting and original songs full of beats and strings. Read more on Last.fm