After a string of festival appearances this summer (including a brilliant set at Wide Awake) and various performances at Brixton’s Windmill, it’s about time that they’ve finally released their debut single ‘Tuesday’ with AMF Records which showcases their poetic, almost surreal style of storytelling. 

Vocalist Clari Freeman-Taylor’s explanation of the song likely rings true to many who move to London and quickly realise how easy it is to feel isolated despite being around so many people:

“I wrote ‘Tuesday’ when I was first experiencing life in a city and was feeling very small. It’s so easy to be swept along with the bustle and noise and feel like a worker ant amidst thousands of others. I wanted to write about my yearning for chaos and realness – we all have wildness within us that we might be suppressing and we shouldn’t feel like aliens because of it”. 

The beginning of the song is reminiscent of Big Thief’s Adrienne Lenker as Freeman-Taylor’s airy voice trembles while describing how she feels “like an alien here”. The song progresses and finally ends in a loud frenzy, reflecting the noise and overwhelming anxiety of London life.

Speaking to NME, she explains that the interesting instrumental choices at the end come from bassist and viola player Saya Barbaglia’s classical music background:

“Saya is also an incredibly talented classical musician. She can play beautifully over anything I write. The bassline at the end of ‘Tuesday’ is really honky-tonky, and I wasn’t expecting it! Saya and I used to play in string quartets together, and a massive part of that is about being able to read each other – it helped us to bond in such a special way”

Despite both Freeman-Taylor and drummer David Addison previously being part of the band Second Thoughts, both seem to agree that they see much more potential with this new project. Addison says that “looking back at what happened before, and that tricky period of time, feels really weird” and Freeman-Taylor recalls not feeling like her songwriting was supported in the past: “I never thought my songwriting was good as it had been dismissed by others in the past, so for this new band to happen has been amazing. It feels like a rebellion against that whole previous era”.

The creativity shown on this single definitely suggests they made the right choice to start anew. 

While unfortunately you may have missed their single release gig at The Windmill (where else?), tickets are now on sale for their headline show at Corsica Studios in March. They’ve also released a music video for ‘Tuesday’, shot by Herbie Bone the bassist of another up and coming local band English Garden, and featuring a yeti who ends up dying on the bank of the Thames as the band mourns it. Undeniably interesting stuff.