Belot

"Soaked in this really vibrant colour, the production gives it an exciting edge ... almost like a reimagined digital funk to it, really charming this thing" BBC Radio 1, Jack Saunders

"the perfect blend of quirk and kink" THE LINE OF BEST FIT

"a frisky document of an effervescent personality making an impact on UK music." CLASH

?"Meet the BRIT School graduate who is building her own brand of awkward pop." WONDERLAND

"Belot fever is real." EARMILK

"With one foot in the commercial arena and the other skirting the peripherals of popular taste, she has delivered a brilliantly dynamic collection that highlights her wonderfully fresh and absorbing direction throughout." WHEN THE HORN BLOWS

"Her brash, upfront lyricism about the everyday existence of humans has earned her acclaim within the music world and sees her garnering fans across the globe." LOCK MAG

"The North London songwriter’s latest collection of "awkward pop" music is a catchy and melodic diary of her early 20s." SONGWRITING MAGAZINE

"With a Dora Jar support in the bag, London's 'awkward pop' pioneer Belot has returned with this super-fun banger. In a very crowded field, Belot is pushing herself further and further in her own direction and it's paying off here." M MAG (PRS FOR MUSIC)

Following on from the release of her much-loved EP 'Harmless Fun' last year, which found support from BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders, Clara Amfo & Sian Eleri and BBC Introducing, Spotify's Indie Pop (1.6 million followers), Fresh Finds & Indie Fresh Finds playlists, as well as online tastemakers The Line Of Best Fit, Dummy, CLASH, Earmilk, Wonderland, Official Charts and Record of the Day, "awkward pop" pioneer Belot has now returned for 2023 to deliver her glittering new single "Cool Whip".

Continuing to pursue more of that bright and groove-filled aesthetic she has cultivated for herself, "Cool Whip" sees her return for the new-year with one of her most explosive offerings to date. Filled with bright and vibrant textures against her own captivating vocal performance, she looks to add another vital addition to her bubbling catalogue to date.

Adding about "Cool Whip", she said, "'Cool Whip' is about being in a relationship with someone who initially seems caring and extremely generous, but down the line you come to realise that every gift and or kind gesture was a cover up for yet another affair or slip up. I've had a few friends over the years that eventually discovered spontaneous flowers could also be red flags. So I always thought it would be interesting to write about the sort of dynamic, where the nicer the gift, the worse the crime."

As well as releasing her highly-acclaimed EP 'Harmless Fun' in 2022, she also saw out the year with a flurry of live performances, including a sold out headline show at London's Paper Dress Vintage, support slots with Cate Canning, Ellie Dixon, Pip Millett, Michael Aldag, Caity Baser, and Dora Jar, as well as festival highlights at Made Me Like It and Latitude.

Belot is a pop fanatic. She adores pop - she lives it, breathes it, and devours it whole. Well, she'd have to. Her own songwriting - deliciously infectious, hilariously engaging - is pop in its purest, most ruthlessly enjoyable sense. It’s crafted by a student of the genre, someone who wakes up in the morning with a song in her head, and won't rest until it's down on tape before breakfast. It's what allowed her debut EP to become such a surprise success – and it's what is driving her to undreamt of heights.

Brought up in North London, living with her Mum and older brother, she was surrounded by music from a young age with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys and Al Green being regularly played in the house. She's always naturally gravitated to music, and would write songs in the bath as early as she can remember. By the age of 8, she was teaching herself guitar in a quest to put her bath time warblings into some sort of construct. Aged 12 Belot had progressed to a laptop and recording, using Logic. Music was clearly the place she felt she could best express her emotions. She fluked her way into the Brit School at the age of 14 and throughout her time there she started to formulate her own vision of the sort of music she wanted to make and how she wanted to be perceived as an artist.

Her musical journey continued - soaking up music of The Strokes, Phoenix, Andy Shauf, Flume, Alt J, Metronomy, and the aggressive dubstep of Kill The Noise.

"I love pop. Always have! And I'm not afraid to say it," she exclaims. "I think for me, a pop song is something that is going to be so catchy it hurts. I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night and it'll still be stuck in my head."

From hereon in, at the quietest moments of the day and night, Belot is set to be your companion, shaking up your life and providing something unique, and truly addictive.