HONEYBLOOD
There’s a fairly accurate tag buzzing around Honeyblood’s name right now: ‘crunchpop’. And for those with a soft spot for breezy but distorted indie jams, we recommend you direct your attention towards the band’s amazing new single Bud, which is out this week via Brighton’s FatCat Records (Mazes, Traams, Dead Gaze, Paws). “Shona (McVicar, drums) and I had met from being in bands before in Glasgow, we arranged a practice, I played her a song and we finished it that day”, Honeyblood’s frontwoman Steena Tweedale tells us. The quickly-assembled tune in question became the demo for No Spare Key, which feels like a fuzzy ode to adolescent heartache and sounds like you’re listening from the outdoor smoking area while the band tear through it onstage. We’d love to be able to say ‘You heard about these guys in Crack first’, but with spotlight- attracting support slots becoming a regularity (“Sleigh Bells were awesome, the loveliest people”, Steena says of her past tour-mates), and hype about Bud steadily brewing, it seems we’re not the only ones eager to shout about them.
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