A Southampton band that built a career on distortion-heavy riffs and shared vocals.
For their early sound, check out 'I Know You Fairly Well.' 'Bomb' shows how they opened things up later without losing the punch.
They've kept a consistent lineup since forming around 2008, with Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson trading vocals over Matt Hayward's drums. Their self-titled debut in 2009 set the template with songs like 'I Know You Fairly Well' and 'Blood,' and later tracks like 'Bomb' and 'Fires' showed they could expand their sound without losing that raw energy. They've occasionally worked with artists like Mumford & Sons and Arctic Monkeys, but their core has always been that guitar-driven blues-rock.
They started with a self-titled album in 2009, built around heavy guitar riffs and Marsden's vocals. Over albums like 'Sweet Sour' in 2012 and 'Himalayan' in 2014, they added electronic textures and psychedelic touches while keeping the anthemic quality. Later material, such as 'Love Is All You Love' and 'Cold Sweat,' still carries that riff-heavy energy from the beginning.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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