Jasmine Jethwa – Girl Who Cried Wolf
South-London singer-songwriter Jasmine Jethwa releases her defiant and raw debut album today ‘Girl Who Cried Wolf’ alongside the album’s title track, out now via AWAL.
Inspired by old English folk music and the esoteric, Jasmine makes alternative-folk songs shaped by her background in dance, her Anglo-Indian heritage (she is half Gujrati), and a deep connection to nature, spirituality and the elements.
Jasmine’s music draws on artists such as Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny and Nick Drake, alongside the devotional vocal style of Lata Mangeshkar. Alongside these influences, her visual world reflects movement and natural landscapes – including harsher climates – which echo the emotional highs and lows of love and life.
Backed by Jasmine’s gorgeous melodies and rich harmonies, her debut album ‘Girl Who Cried Wolf’ is a captivating personal story about navigating the balance between defiance and surrender. Introducing the album over the last few months with the singles ‘If You Don’t Know’, ‘Ladybird’, ‘I Believe in Love’, ‘Vulnerable’ and ‘I’m Alright Now’, the 11-track record moves through love, spirituality, heartbreak and identity, with a direct and honest voice, drawing on influences from personal experience, esoteric ideas and old folk music.
The album follows a similar path to the archetypal journey of the Rider-Waite Tarot, starting at the beginning – The Fool’s Journey – stepping out into the unknown, not knowing what’s to come, but being driven by unrelenting hope and the gut instinct of learning to trust yourself.
Jasmine says,
“This album is about navigating life and love, and the balance between defiance and surrender. I believe in life’s divine timing and that things happen when they’re supposed to. But when difficulties arise, it can be really hard to trust you’re still on the right path.”
‘“Girl Who Cried Wolf’ was inspired by the classic tale of ‘The boy who cried wolf’. For a long time, I kept believing that the next person, relationship, or big moment would be the thing to change my life. I was waiting for something outside myself to tell me where I was meant to be. Eventually I realised a lot of the things I’d chosen in the past weren’t right for me at all. This album embodies a girl’s journey through uncertainty and transformation.”
The album’s focus track is the title track ‘Girl Who Cried Wolf’, which is a track that builds through a rhythmic alt-folk melody and stirring vocals, lyrically questioning truth and self-belief. Jasmine says,
“This song explores the lack of clarity that comes with trying to recognise when something, or someone is truly right for you. For a long time I’d felt like I’d placed my belief in the wrong people and things, which left me questioning how I’d recognise the right thing when it finally arrived. I couldn’t tell whether these were lessons I still needed to learn or whether I could break out of the cycle I’d created for myself.”
Debut album ‘Girl Who Cried Wolf’ marks Jasmine’s first full-length body of work following three previous EPs over the past six years, with ‘Love Worth Believing’, ‘Same Streets But I Don’t See You Around’ and ‘Hurricane’. Jasmine has sold-out headline shows at London’s Lafayette and the Institute of Contemporary Arts and she has just announced an Autumn 2026 tour, including a headline show at London’s Union Chapel. Full dates are below and tickets go on sale at 10am on 5th June.
October:
Thurs 29th – Bristol – Strange Brew
Fri 30th – London – Union Chapel
November:
Sun 1st – Manchester – YES
Mon 2nd – Glasgow – St. Lukes
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