Nature TV

"A dose of bleached out yacht rock…"
- CLASH
 
"A shimmering blend of soulful indie-pop and a 70s soaked rhythm section"
- The Line Of Best Fit
 
"Really rather spiffing"
- DORK

Musing in the long shadows of cool summer nights, sadboi yacht rock specialists, Nature TV release their latest single, Words, an in-seat-shifting, pen-chewing meditation on saying nothing in moments of uncertainty and keeping faith in the kindness of strangers. Set to their trademark, gently glittering, anti-glamour reading of excess-laden late century soulful indie-pop and the most select of jangling 80's indie, the result is the settling, warm embrace of a band connecting melodic joy with a wry, knowing take on times when all signs lead to confusion.
 
Having released and received an effusive response to their first new music of 2023, Illusions back in May and enjoying an extended run on the road across the UK with Chappaqua Wrestling in the same month, the band returns from a recent showcase in Canada to lay down the latest stepping stone on the way to the autumn release of their next EP titled Mid Flight. Climbing aboard with talent-spotting tastemaker indie label, Heist or Hit once more, the release of Words confirms the graduation in Nature TV's songwriting and studio craft having hot-housed ideas in a rural retreat earlier this year.
 
A band equally comprised of aimless wanderers, cannoning free spirits and under-the-bonnet music nerds concerned with creating the perfect song, Words offers serendipitous combinations of their interests, from classic Laurel Canyon-era songwriters to dancefloor indie. What's left behind is rich, sunshine-dripping music where nothing's forced into place.

Singer and guitarist, Guy Bangham says of the single: "Words can get you into trouble. Trying to say something nice can come out awfully and just trying to get your point across can make no sense to anyone but you. Sometimes it’s best not to say anything at all, but then you're frightened into isolation. This is for all those people who feel stranded out there, saying that the best way off your island is to reach out - most people want to help, don’t go down the lonely path of thinking they don't."
 
The band's four members, Bangham, Josh Erişkin (bass), Jimmy Hunt (lead guitar, backing vocals) and Zal Jones (drums) left Brighton to take to the damp slopes and surrounding mists of Wales’ Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, staying in a 500-year-old farmhouse, to write and record a new batch of songs for release through a busy 2023.
 
The remaining six months includes an 11-date UK Tour this autumn, coinciding with the release of the Mid Flight EP’s six tracks. Transporting their experience cracking open fires, the constant threat of rain and even more deeply-engrained friendship and creative camaraderie in their songs directly to their audiences, all of the currently announced Nature TV shows for 2023 are as follows: 

• Tue 3 Oct – Portsmouth, The Wedge
• Fri 4 Oct – Bristol, The Lanes
• Sat 5 Oct – Brighton, Hope and Ruin
• Thu 12 Oct - Bournemouth, 60 Million
• Sat 21 Oct - Margate, Albion Rooms
• Sun 22 Oct – Nottingham, Chameleon
• Mon 23 Oct - Leeds, Hyde Park Book Club
• Tue 24 Oct - Newcastle, Little Buildings
• Wed 25 Oct – Glasgow, Hug and Pint
• Thu 26 Oct – Manchester, Castle Hotel
• Fri 27 Oct - London, Colours 

Nature TV’s development as songwriters, studio magicians and a meticulous live band has been lived out in public with heart-on-sleeve sincerity since the heralded arrival of their debut EP ‘proper’, Emotion Sickness, then bouncing prolifically on through four, globally tumultuous years with a further three EPs – Lady Luck, Heartbreak Skyline and Nightshift.
 
Their unhurried and ongoing rise since first emerging in 2019 has been assisted by their unquestionable finesse as a live band, taking to the stages of festivals such as ILMC, The Great Escape, Wild Paths and NXNE alongside support slots with respected peers, PINS, Wyldest, CVC, VANT and Swimming Tapes. Following a full UK tour with Liverpool's Trudy and The Romance, the band last took to the road for their own headline dates in October 2022 where they sold out shows in major UK cities, from Edinburgh to London.