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DOORS – 7:30pm
ROCHEMAN – 8:30pm
MOLLY BURCH – 9:30pm
Texas vocalist and songwriter Molly Burch burst onto the music scene in 2017 with her debut album Please Be Mine, a ten-track ode to unrequited romance that earned praise from critics for her smoky, effortless vocals and bleeding-heart lyrics. After a year of touring Please Be Mine all over North America, Europe and the UK, Burch returned to Texas to decompress. Slowly, Burch’s much anticipated second record First Flower began to take shape. First Flower is a walk-through Burch’s most intimate thoughts. Unlike Please Be Mine, which focused on the contentious depression of heartbreak, First Flower explores broken friendships, her relationship to her sister, and more importantly, how Burch learned to fight overwhelming anxiety.“I feel like people don’t see me as a nervous person,” Burch says “They don’t realize how nervous I am. I am good at fighting past my inner anxieties. I struggle with the anticipation of experiences”.
Burch’s voice is as strong and dexterous as ever, displaying her incredible range and professionalism as a vocalist. First Flower is a shapely sonic stage to let her shine on. “I don’t have the answers by any means, but I wanted to talk about those imperfections…I wouldn’t want someone who listens to my music to think that I have it all figured out. I don’t. First Flower is me being transparent.”
First Flower is out 5th October via Captured Tracks.
mollyburch.bandcamp.com
Rocheman‘s sound both fights and embraces the bedroom production aesthetic; this is neither entirely digital or analogue, clinical or DIY. Rather it is a multitude of alien textures, parallel world harmonies and “other voices” beckoning our baritone protagonist from off-stage. The result is pop music with a weight of grandeur and orchestral ambition, all tempered by a homespun gauze.
nxrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rocheman
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Doors 7:30pm
Tickets £8.50 +bf