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Dreamy, wonky synth songs.

Upcoming release from composer/performer Rosie Tee for Spring 2024.

Night Creature

The Dogs

Painted Ladies

Echoes explores the challenges of dealing with anxiety and how one bad thought in the morning can completely take over one's motivation. The choice is to either let it beat you or try your best to confront it and get up. This song is our message of encouragement.

Echoes

"Sheet Ghost" is more than just a song—it's a haunting reflection on the invisible struggles we face in life. Like the spectral figure draped in a sheet, it delves into themes of abuse, homelessness, and the unraveling of relationships, capturing the feeling of being alone in a crowd or at a party surrounded by familiar faces yet feeling utterly disconnected. Through poignant lyrics and ethereal melodies, "Sheet Ghost" invites listeners to confront the specters of their own hidden turmoil and find solace in the shared experience of navigating life's unseen challenges.

(single)

Sheet Ghost

Nessa May - mil.mp3

Blush is a chilled-out dance-pop song perfect for dancing and singing along! I wrote this song three years ago and recently decided to revisit it, producing it in my bedroom.

Blush

BIG + BAD by Beauty Sleep out April 26th 
Pre save: https://beautysleep.ffm.to/bigandbad

Beauty Sleep are back with single "BIG + BAD" an electrifying anthem celebrating queerness and rejecting societal expectations.

 Incensed after realising how gendered their online ads were, the duo wrote the song saying "BIG + BAD is a takedown of online toxic masculinity and the pedalling of uninformed harmful ideas."

The punchy single merges big guitar riffs with flirtatious vocals and danceable beats. For fans of St Vincent and Caroline Rose, "BIG + BAD" is a lavish production with a tougher sound than their debut Be Kind, showcasing the new Beauty Sleep era in full colour. 

ARTIST BIO
Indie rock sweethearts Beauty Sleep are producers and songwriters Cheylene Murphy and Ryan McGroarty. The Derry duo serve up a blend of bewitching synths and bombastic guitars that are sure to set your heart racing. These partners in crime released their debut album Be Kind in 2019 which was shortlisted for Best Album at the Northern Irish Music Prize and garnered national radio support from BBC Radio One, 6Music, RTE2fm and seen them perform at festivals such as SXSW, The Great Escape and Other Voices. Beauty Sleep’s lavish soundscapes and dizzying songwriting have drawn comparisons to St Vincent, Caroline Rose & Japanese Breakfast. 

“Sighing harmonies, gorgeous psych-speckled guitar lines, the band have all the ingredients of a cult favourite” - Clash Magazine

"Thrilling guitar riffs and electronic background synths. It's full of fun" - Hot Press

“Bubbling with heart and a soaring hook that showcases another dimension” – Indie Shuffle

BIG + BAD

Here's one from the back catalogue!

[English below]
Mae fy mrawd a finnau wedi bod yn sgwennu caneuon gyda'n gilydd ers cyfnod hir rŵan. Dyma gân o'n "back-catalogue", wedi'i ysgrifennu nôl ym Metws-y-coed yng nghanol y 2010au, wn ni ddim pryd yn union. Roedd y gân yn poblogaedd iawn gyda'n gynulleidfaoedd ar y pryd (roedden ni'n berfformio o dan enw arall adeg yna). 

Buom ni'n recordio'r gân yn 2018 yn Rhydychen gyda'n ffrindiau, Nico a Jakes (sydd bellach yn berfformio o dan yr enw, Pecq, ewch i wrando arnyn nhw!), ond ni ryddhaom y gân oherwydd doeddwn ni ddim yn gigio lot gyda'r prosiect erbyn hynny, gan fod ni'n ddau yn bwy mewn dinasoedd gwahanol. 

Mae gennon ni prosiect newydd yn bellach, fel rydach chi wedi sylwi, felly, dyma chi'r gân "bwdl ldl lwm bwm bwm", o'r diwedd! Mwynhewch.

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My brother and I have been writing songs together for a while now. Here's one from our back catelogue. We came up with this little ditty while jamming on the piano in our family home in Betws-y-coed at somepoint towards the middle of the 2010s, not sure when exactly. It was a hit with audiences at the time (we performed under a different name back then).

We recorded the song in Oxford in 2018 with our friends Nico and Jakes (who now perform under the name Pecq, checl them out!), but then we ended up not releasing it, because we weren't gigging that much with that band at the time due to us living in different cities. 

Since then, as you've noticed, we started this new project! :D So, the time came to release the "bobl lobl lom bom bom" song at last! Enjoy :)

Music video: https://youtu.be/VCpibcH2lDs
Smart link: https://kycker.ffm.to/mylove

My love, my love
is bigger than your whole world. 
It grows, it grows
and conquers everything
My heart, my heart
is beating just for you,
And for your love
I would do anything
      
I can't help it, I'm in love with you 
You're the only thing I want to do

My heart, my heart,
is hotter than the brightest star
It grows it grows,
and burns up everything
Your eyes, your eyes,
they carry me oh so far
And for one look,
I would do anything

For    your eyes
For    your heart
For    your love   
        
I can't help it, I'm in love with you    
You're the only thing I want to do

My love is bigger and brighter than anything
My love will set you on fire and burn you up
My love is bigger and brighter than anything
You can imagine

My love is bigger and brighter than anything
My love will set you on fire and burn you up
My love is bigger and brighter than anything
You can imagine

Credits:
Siôn Rickard - lead vocals, ukelele, main composer
Liam Rickard - backing vocals, guitar, bass
Niko O'Brien - drums, e-guitar, production
Hannah Jakes - keys, production

Recorded & produced in Oxford by Upcycled Sounds

My Love

Parasite - Angel B Valentine

To Do Lists

Love Mode Activated

Sanctuary (Inspired by The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman)

A Country/Soft Rock homage to the relationship between a band and their fans as they criss-cross their way accross the U.S.

Seven Sins Aren't Enough

See Y'all Again

Anyone who has ever lost a loved one knows that there is almost no worse pain. It is a pain that stays with you for the rest of your life. Perhaps this song will give you a little comfort.

Amely x Netaniel - Ramas Bun

Ever since we released MetaGoth#1 back in 2022, we have been promising to create a MetaGoth#2. We are thrilled to tell you that we have at last done exactly that!

At a cracking 165bpm, MetaGoth#1 was a danceable track full of palpable tension, anger and defiance. As its name suggests, it was also a playful take on familiar gothic tropes and sounds, plus a lot of what came after those heady days in the early ‘80s, when the two of us helped, in our own small way, to bring this musical genre into being. 

Alone (MetaGoth#2) carries on in this same vein. It takes the same riffs and augmented samples that we used to create MetaGoth#1, but this time it broods along at an imperious 61bpm, and hosts a new set of fabulous percussion and vocals, referencing an altogether more melancholic and poetic facet from the postpunk scene. Complementing this are the lyrics, drawn from that most gothic of writers, Edgar Allan Poe. 

Why not have a listen to MetaGoth#1 after you have heard Alone (MetaGoth#2), and see how many shared samples and sounds you can spot!


From childhood's hour I have not been 
As others were - I have not seen 
As others saw - I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring. 
From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow; I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone; 
And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone.
(from the poem, Alone, by Edgar Allan Poe)

Alone (MetaGoth#2)

FADE OUT

Gradients

Stripped back (heart attack)

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