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About

Fates is the artist persona of UK-born singer-songwriter Zoë Sutherland — rock 'n' roll romantic, midnight mystic muse, and one of independent music's most distinctive voices.

Her music lives somewhere between memory and yearning: dream folk-pop laced with alt-rock instincts, self-produced in home studios across years of travel, transcendence, and the magical mundane. Witchy, romantic, and unhurried — described as the Stevie Nicks of the Highlands, with the intimacy of Suki Waterhouse and the mythological depth of a world entirely her own.

Fates writes for the seekers, the romantics, and the beautifully lost — those who feel technicolour in a greyscale world.

What people are saying

"There are voices and then there are transmissions. Zoë is not just a musician — she is a vessel. Her voice carries something ancient, something holy, something that needs to be felt in real time to truly be understood. Listening to her live is a full body experience. It's like every cell in you suddenly stands to attention, remembering something it forgot it knew. She doesn't just sing. Her music is a kind of medicine for the soul. The world doesn't just want her voice — it needs it. Not just to be entertained... but to be restored."

– Georgina Lindstrom, Blue Lotus Design Australia

"The Stevie Nicks of the Highlands."

– Gareth Williams, Scotland UK

Press

"Soulful Sounds with Zoe" — Daughters of India Journal

Myth + Meaning — Debut EP

Released 29 July 2026 · Distributed via Symphonic

There is a woman who does not know where to start.

Myth + Meaning is the record of that walk — six songs born in home studios scattered across the world, conjured in the quiet hours, shaped by years of travel and transcendence and the magical mundane. Songs about longing and restlessness, about tenderness found in unexpected gardens, about the work of idle hands, about learning — slowly, stubbornly — to slow time down enough to feel it.

This record begins with confident uncertainty and ends on a black sand shore, where a woman finds her voice and sets it free.

Six songs. One mythology. Released at the exact moment the stars came home.

Tracklist

01 – Where to Start – Confident uncertainty, the beginning of everything

02 – Cold – The hunger for warmth in all the wrong places

03 – Slowing Time – A love letter to the small moments, slow presence

04 – Idle Hands – Restlessness, mischief, and shaking the blues away

05 – The Garden – Tenderness, where the heart builds a home

06 – Black Sands – Spoken word, a reclamation. "I found god," she says.

Sounds Like

Stevie Nicks / Florence + the Machine / Suki Waterhouse / Nina Nesbitt / Phoebe Bridgers

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