I stumbled up upon the Sleafords the other day and have spent the past few nights down a grimy post-industrial truth-telling rabbit hole. Lead singer and lyricist Jason Williamson has an austere, raspy spoken-word style, which he delivers over DJ Andrew Fearn's stripped-down electronic soundtrack. The band has slowly built an audience since their founding in 2007, not charting until their eighth record, and rising as high as fourth in England with their latest, Spare Ribs. They just performed their first arena show, fittingly in Nottingham. The review is spectacular.
Williamson's influences include both Stone Roses and the Wu Tang Clan, which is excellent. In the extended trailer for a documentary about the band entitled Bunch of Kunst (see below) we see how those styles combine.
Here are a handful of Mods videos, the first of which features Billy Nomates, a revelation in her own right.
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If Liam Gallagher and The Streets had a love child.
yes!
don't know if any of the assembled gheorghies are fans of huckberry, but they're doing a giveaway in partnership with bring a trailer that promises to be pretty cool. if it's like their other giveaways, you'll have to buy some stuff to qualify. but you need gifts for your friends and your significant others, so there's your excuse.
Good stuff Rob. Did a deeper dive on Billy Nomates as well.
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