After spending a few minutes in a room with Circa Waves talking about their recent trips around the world playing to crowds of thousands, you might be surprised to hear that they still are, for the lack of a better word, normal guys. Bright eyed and brimming with excitement for what’s to come down the […]
Timeless melodies delivered with a bolstering passion and an entrancing vocal. Boy & Bear make music that is deeply honest and completely endearing. The band are nearing the end of their year long tour in promotion for their sophomore record ‘Harlequin Dream’ touching down in the UK, this November.
To me, Superfood’s ethos is all about freedom of expression and music that makes you feel good: music to dance to, music to sing-a-long to, music to just let loose to. It’s all about the freedom that you get when you go to their gigs and the euphoria of that connection you have with the […]
For Callum Burrows (aka. Saint Raymond) the past 12 months have been a real learning curve preparing this young artist for future success. The past year has seen him gracing many festival stages across the UK and Europe, supporting Ed Sheeran on his huge arena tour and if that wasn’t enough he’s also managed to […]
“Can you make our random facts sound better?,” Will Taylor (Flyte’s lead singer/guitarist) jests after our interview ended last Sunday night. For a band that seemingly sprung up overnight in the summer of 2013, and have since gone on to score support slots with Bombay Bicycle Club and Stevie Wonder, you would think that they’d already […]
London singer/songwriter Kimberly Anne has just come off touring around the UK with pop powerhouse, Ella Eyre. Kimberly is the real deal, her lyrical honesty and musical precision is beyond her years. Her music is fun and vibrant with a honest and sincere skin.
Joel Baker, if you didn’t already know, is an artist that we love, LOVE here at Bitter Sweet Symphonies. With songs that are both intimately heartfelt and deeply personal, uplifting and introspective, melodious and elegant pop songs. It’s hard not to fall deeply into Joel’s world.
Australian band, The Vanns came to our attention a good few months ago and after hearing ‘Guilty Love’ we were hooked. Uplifting melodies, soaring indie vocals, infectious surf rock rhythms and engaging lyricism make The Vanns just too good to pass up.
From the jangly, dream pop of ‘Surround You’ to indie that rages with grungy guitars that evoke a much harder, grittier sound on tracks like ‘Home’ and ‘Gold’. The tracks on ‘Be Slowly’ are loaded with atmosphere and lush reverb, most are romantic tales of young love and adoration, it’s a dream combination. What JAWS have […]
ETCHES are a band that I would like to call a ‘hidden gem’. Their music provokes a heightened state of sonic bliss, seeped in bristling textures and a mosaic of varied tones and musical harmonies, it’s like a musical awakening listening to ETCHES. Their creativity is boundless and their music is quite simply enviable.
I caught up with Port Isla last weekend at Bingley Music Live, where the band played their last festival of the summer. They took to the stage mid-afternoon and drew one of the largest crowds with the sun beaming down onto the stage, Port Isla provided the soundtrack to equal the happiness we were all […]
Night Engine are a band that have worked relentlessly and meticulously, meaning that when they hit the live scene back in 2012, they had already perfected their sound and had a solid live set to their name. Which in turn, garnered many rave reviews from critics from the get-go. After spending the last year or […]
Eliza and the Bear are the perfect festival band, their songs are bursting with sonic colour, bright hues accentuate blossoming lyricism and sizzling indie inflections. Having just released their début EP ‘Light It Up’, the band are primed to head back on tour this Autumn for a full list of dates head here.
Prides never fail to astound and amaze with their simply addictive electro pop, it definitely seems like this band can churn out instant hits at the slight of a hand. After last year’s début ‘Out Of The Blue’ they’ve continued with each new release to up the anti that little bit more giving us tracks […]
VYNCE make indie pop that shimmers with irrefutable vibrancy and an ardent beating heart. Since the band formed in the summer of 2013, they have steadily gained a large and dedicated following around Merseyside and its surrounding areas. Over the next few months, VYNCE will be playing some big shows around the North West, including […]
HARTS (aka. Darren Hart) is an artist that waves the flag proud for true musicianship: a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer. His grooves are slick, his rock’n’roll heavy and his soul / funk / pop is light and breezy. No wonder Prince has taken a shine to him saying that “He reminds me of how I […]
London trio Happyness are a charming prospect. The trio have a sound that’s uniquely theirs yet there’s an air of familiarly about it also. They are a band that take influence from the melding of slacker rock with smatterings of jangly ambient atmospherics and the occasional tendency to break out into all-out noise.
Glass Caves are the band to shake up your life with a fiery passion. Yorkshire’s answer to Catfish and the Bottlemen, you might say. Glass Caves anthemic indie rock is just the right combination of frenetic guitars, impassioned vocals and foot-to-the-pedal melodies that will get you dancing uncontrollably and singing along at the top of […]
Nothing But Thieves are the breakout band of the year for us. The combination of fizzying intensity and underlying tension within their music is something special to behold. With a lead vocal that soars higher than the clouds and soulful r’n’b infused stadium rock that will have you grooving, while they tear your heart out […]
Ever since we first heard Rey Pila’s alt-rock gem ‘Alexander’ in 2013, we’ve not been able to move on from it. Furthermore, at the end of 2013, we stated that Rey Pila would be one of the biggest breakouts of 2014 and they haven’t disappointed. With the release of new single ‘Blast’ and a tour with […]