Sheepish

Fell in love with it on first listen” Jess Iszatt, BBC Introducing (Radio 1)

“Counter Culture” Rough Trade

Spearheaded by songwriter Charlie Bowles, and performing live with a 5-strong line-up that has been playing together since childhood,  London’s Sheepish set their stall on spinning out fluffy, hook-laden indie-psych, tinged with the pangs of esoteric weirdness.

Mingling the familiarities of bedroom textures, candied melodies with a penchant for weird experiments and vintage production techniques, each Sheepish track offers its own wondrous pocket-sized adventure, and vibrant new single ‘High Note’, out today (14th January) is no exception. 

Moulding together the off-kilter rhythms of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, the fiddly, home-spun textures of classic jangle-pop and a Syd Barrett-esque air of quintessential British awkwardness,  ‘High Note’ provides a decidedly joyful take on one’s posthumous arrival at the pearly gates of heaven, as Charlie himself explains: 

Offering more on the track, Charlie says “This is a simple repetitive song about humility. Originally performed with just guitar and vocals, the song eventually morphed into a jagged tightly arranged noughties flavoured post-punk track. The song contrasts success with the abyss of meeting our maker (“when I went up to see them sitting down”). The outro imagines arriving at the gates of heaven.”

Already championed today by Radio X (John Kennedy), the single offers the first teaser of debut EP Goodbye Lemon that lands next month (18th Feb), and comes off the back of support from Rough Trade and BBC Introducing London (Jess Iszatt) last year.