The Wanderlings V3 & V4

The Wanderlings

Volume Three & Volume Four

These are my songs, but not my stories. The stories belong to the people who first told them, who passed them on, who wrote them down, and to those of us who have heard them. Oral traditions of storytelling are sacred, entertaining, scary, empowering, soothing, hilarious, and wise. They tell us about belonging and community. They warn us of taboos and dangers. They inspire us to great deeds.

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The Wanderlings

4 Album Set

This 4-album set is the whole of a project that began in 2014 with the idea of painting a sonic panoramic of the roles women play in folklore and myth. 4 Volumes - one written in each season, with 13 songs each, one for every week of the year - 10 years in the making.

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The Wanderlings

The Complete Collection

Included are 5 full albums, an album's worth of B-sides, bootlegs & Wanderling songs that never made it onto an album, song illustrations, and a songbook pdf with lyrics, stories, references, graphics, keys & chords for all 4 Wanderlings albums.

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a patron album

12 Months a Year

2022

12 songs for 12 months of the year, plus 3 bonus tracks. Each song was released to Leslie's patrons on the 21st of the month, Nov 21 2021 - Oct 21 2022. Most of these songs were written & recorded during FAWM 2022, edited & mastered monthly.

Including ace/aro love songs, tour memories, reflections on neurodivergence, praising the beauty of nature & physics, film & folklore inspirations, friends made and lost, mental health, boundaries, and a layered-vocal tapestry born from just enough wine in the dark.

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Reset to Factory Specs

Reset to Factory Specs

2022

"If you know me, you know I like to tell stories. I love tangents and footnotes. I like to find my way into the mind of a person in a myth or a folktale and write what I discover about them from the inside-out. This time I've done that with my own life.

There are parts of myself I've kept hidden. Pieces of who I really am, memories of what's really happened to me, ways I've survived and how I've grown out of ashes. So many Tower cards, and me, navigating the rubble.

For this album I removed all the masks and set aside every voice but my own, to let myself face and embrace who I am and write about it: a queer, autistic, non-binary survivor who's lucky to be here and to be so loved." --Leslie

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Reset Scratch Tracks & Demos

2022

Scratch tracks & demos recorded at the start of the album making process for Reset to Factory Specs.

These are the tracks that were sent to co-producer & arranger John Argentiero, and formed the backbone of what the album would become.

Listen to the album, and then listen to where the songs began.

Recorded live in 2020/2021 on a Zoom H2 and mastered by Leslie Hudson at Blest & Hext Studios, Stratford ON

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Mermaid [SINGLE]

2022

"Mermaid" is the lead single from Reset to Factory Specs. A pop anthem you can dance to that says: "Get out of my life, you toxic thing, cuz I wanna see what my life can bring." It's about finding your people, no matter what limitations and expectations have tried to keep you tied where you don't belong.

"Anyone who's come out to their community or loved ones and been rejected for it knows that chosen family can be a lifeline. Finding my voice as a queer, autistic, non-binary artist has let me be a lighthouse for others like me, adding to the chorus of everyone who's come before me." -- Leslie

"Mermaid" celebrates identity, the long road to figuring yourself out, and the underwater party where one day you're gonna feel right at home.

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    Only Ophelia Knows 3:52
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    Firebrand (demo) 6:00
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    Troublemaker 3:54
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    Carving Knife (live) 4:54
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    Unconsecrated Ground 3:20
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    Children of Light 4:01
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    Stargazer 5:08
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Steeped in Magic

Hemlock Honey and Crows (Deluxe)

2021

Piano, vocal & guest musicians Deluxe includes the 8 tracks originally released on Hemlock Honey and Crows (with guest musicians), and also includes the 8 solo versions of these songs (piano & vocal only) - 2 albums in one

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Hemlock Honey and Crows

2021

Piano, vocal & guest musicians galore Songs for the Samhain season, with ghost stories, ritual songs, and love for the poisoner schools of old. Musicians from the US & Germany contributed in pairs & trios to each of 8 truly witchy songs

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Indie Rock

Folklore & Myth

Geek Rock

Early Releases

Instrumental