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one of the country’s most spellbinding new bands” Shindig! |
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Announcing their signing to Broadside Hacks Recordings & Slow Dance Records (Shovel Dance Collective, PVA), Brighton newcomers The New Eves share two track debut release ‘Original Sin’ / ‘Mother’. Debuting haunting cut ‘Mother’ on this year’s esteemed Slow Dance Compilation, the previously unreleased ‘Original Sin’ unleashes an engrossing hybrid of rustic folk and 60s garage, with tender, soul-stirring group chants and lightning punk thrashes converging to tap into some uncanny, ineffable power, as the band explain: ““The band is fighting a biblical battle between shame and pleasure, body and mind, good and evil.’The lyrics are poetic and unapologetic “Throw away my fading halo and start dancing” is the type of line that’s calling to be written on the bedroom wall of teenagers up and down the country. This is the song Eve would have written if she had an electric guitar” Drawing comparisons to The Velvet Underground, Incredible String Band, and Dakha Brakha, The quartet unlock a primal, bacchanalian experience with their nuanced infusions of Pagan-folk, Krautrock and Punk. Singing of volcanoes, of thunder and mountains, of the passions burning at the core of womanhood, a prodigious touring schedule in 2023 across London, Brighton and Bristol has already found them favour with Shindig! and Moof magazine, in addition to notable support slots for the likes of M(h)aol, Opus Kink, Junior Brother, and Widowspeak. Dreamed up in 2021 by Kate Mager (bass), Ella Russell (drums, flute, vocals), Nina Winder-Lind (cello, guitar, vocals) Violet Farrer (violin, guitar, vocals) while lying together in bed, the quartet hosted their first jam sessions in a studio under a railway in the middle of car wash that stunk of hamsters and sweat. Defined by a powerful communal bond, each member contributes lyrics and themes during the writing process, often singing and speaking together to cultivate that compelling, unanimous force central to their live spectacle. |