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We Were Evergreen
Michael, Fabienne and William are We Were Evergreen, a trio of friends who made good on a New Year’s resolution to form a band and start making beautiful music together. Based around their guitars and playful machines, the trio quickly learned how to weave innovative songwriting together with gorgeous harmonies and deft electronic idiosyncracies.
Now settled in London from Paris, after training at the French capital’s prestigious Conservatoire de Musique, the threesome have spent some time steadily intoxicating more switched on music fans with their sound. Word has spread via their increasing profile of live outings, with support slots for Ed Sheeran, Michael Kiwanuka and Goldfrapp. They’ve also become a firm festival favourite with crowds at Lovebox, Wilderness and Green Man over the last few summers.
2014 has seen the culmination of We Were Evergreen’s endeavours with the release of debut album, Towards. The record sees them expanding the standard indie pop template, employing ukuleles, banjos, toy pianos and kazoos to weave a lovely net of electronic indie sounds.
Produced in cahoots with Mercury Prize winning alt-J collaborator Charlie Andrew, the record is a collection of 12 smart pop moments and signposts a big musical leap forward for the group. Metronomy, Björk and Elliot Smith are all reference points with Best Thing and Daughters just some of the highlights from an album that exudes its own distinct colours and charm. Despite all the hard work, they still make sounding and looking chic seem so effortless. If they haven’t already been the soundtrack to your summer, then catch them live later this year and look out for more new material soon.
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Michael, Fabienne and William are We Were Evergreen, a trio of friends who made good on a New Year’s resolution to form a band and start making beautiful music together. Based around their guitars and playful machines, the trio quickly learned how to weave innovative songwriting together with gorgeous harmonies and deft electronic idiosyncracies.
Now settled in London from Paris, after training at the French capital’s prestigious Conservatoire de Musique, the threesome have spent some time steadily intoxicating more switched on music fans with their sound. Word has spread via their increasing profile of live outings, with support slots for Ed Sheeran, Michael Kiwanuka and Goldfrapp. They’ve also become a firm festival favourite with crowds at Lovebox, Wilderness and Green Man over the last few summers.
2014 has seen the culmination of We Were Evergreen’s endeavours with the release of debut album, Towards. The record sees them expanding the standard indie pop template, employing ukuleles, banjos, toy pianos and kazoos to weave a lovely net of electronic indie sounds.
Produced in cahoots with Mercury Prize winning alt-J collaborator Charlie Andrew, the record is a collection of 12 smart pop moments and signposts a big musical leap forward for the group. Metronomy, Björk and Elliot Smith are all reference points with Best Thing and Daughters just some of the highlights from an album that exudes its own distinct colours and charm. Despite all the hard work, they still make sounding and looking chic seem so effortless. If they haven’t already been the soundtrack to your summer, then catch them live later this year and look out for more new material soon.
wewereevergreen.com
Auntie Flo is Brian d’Souza, an electronic producer looking far further afield than the usual circuit board of beats and bleeps for inspiration. Hailing from Goa, by way of Glasgow, Brian blends a love for classic house, techno and disco with the afrobeat, kwaito and world music rhythms of his heritage.
It’s this innovative style which has informed his Goan Highlife and Oh My Days EPs for dance imprint Huntleys and Palmers, and has seen him establish himself as the resident for the label’s highlife parties.
Brian has since released a much loved debut mini album Future Rhythm Machine showcasing his ‘afro-futurist’ sound. He’s currently working on a debut album proper after recently being named as a recipient of backing from the PRS for Music Foundation’s Momentum Music Fund.
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It’s this innovative style which has informed his Goan Highlife and Oh My Days EPs for dance imprint Huntleys and Palmers, and has seen him establish himself as the resident for the label’s highlife parties.
Brian has since released a much loved debut mini album Future Rhythm Machine showcasing his ‘afro-futurist’ sound. He’s currently working on a debut album proper after recently being named as a recipient of backing from the PRS for Music Foundation’s Momentum Music Fund.
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Black State Highway
Brighton Institute of Modern Music alumni Black State Highway may have met while studying, but this five-piece play hard, their feedback filled rock more in keeping with nocturnal pacts made at crossroads than higher education.
Whether or not they have sold their souls to the devil isn’t certain. But what is apparent on first listen is their potent combination of blues, grooves and raw riffs. Latvian singer Liva Steinberga leads the motley crew, aided and abetted by guitarist Olie Trethewey, bassist Gordon Duncan, Jon Crampton and drummer Harry Bland.
While technically great players, they have plenty of dirt in the grooves of their music as evidenced by their belligerent self titled debut. The eight-song LP wears their love for AC/DC and Deep Purple firmly on its denim sleeves. It’s rough and ready rock ’n’ roll with rips in its jeans but fuelled by 21st century production techniques as much as Jack Daniels.
You won’t need to look out for these guys - you’ll be able to hear them coming…
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Brighton Institute of Modern Music alumni Black State Highway may have met while studying, but this five-piece play hard, their feedback filled rock more in keeping with nocturnal pacts made at crossroads than higher education.
Whether or not they have sold their souls to the devil isn’t certain. But what is apparent on first listen is their potent combination of blues, grooves and raw riffs. Latvian singer Liva Steinberga leads the motley crew, aided and abetted by guitarist Olie Trethewey, bassist Gordon Duncan, Jon Crampton and drummer Harry Bland.
While technically great players, they have plenty of dirt in the grooves of their music as evidenced by their belligerent self titled debut. The eight-song LP wears their love for AC/DC and Deep Purple firmly on its denim sleeves. It’s rough and ready rock ’n’ roll with rips in its jeans but fuelled by 21st century production techniques as much as Jack Daniels.
You won’t need to look out for these guys - you’ll be able to hear them coming…
blackstatehighway.co.uk
Punk poet Jock Scott has enjoyed a life substantially more eventful than most. He began his musical ‘career’ back in the late seventies/early eighties after falling in with Ian Dury and the Blockheads. He went on to meet, hang out and work with many of the greats of the era such Wreckless Eric, the Clash and Talking Heads before picking up his quill and beginning to craft his own creations.
His way with words and passion with which he delivers them earnt him a cult following and fans in the likes of newer acts including British Sea Power and Nectarine No. 9, with whom he’s since collaborated. If you love your words to have eloquence and passion, then Jock's My Personal Culloden, a collection of his works, is a must...
Read our full length interview with Jock.
His way with words and passion with which he delivers them earnt him a cult following and fans in the likes of newer acts including British Sea Power and Nectarine No. 9, with whom he’s since collaborated. If you love your words to have eloquence and passion, then Jock's My Personal Culloden, a collection of his works, is a must...
Read our full length interview with Jock.
