Another 6 Music find, via Chris Hawkins. Girl In The Year Above.
This is their first official single, but they’re on the soundtrack of the new Peaky Blinders film with a cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop. I was told to expect a lot from that track, and it didn’t really do it for me, beautiful though it is. But this is very nice indeed. Celtic vibes (as you might expect from an Irish/Cornish band), and a wonderfully expressive, emotive, powerful voice up front in Jennifer Ball.
Inevitable comparisons with Florence Welch.
Oh. And they are going to be at Sheffield’s Tramlines Festival in July.
Incidentally, although I’m not a fan of the series (I’m not not a fan either: I’ve just never watched it), the soundtrack to the Peaky Blinders film is pretty impressive: Grian Chatten, Lankum, Nic Cave, Fontaines D.C. and Amy Taylor of Amyl and the Sniffers.