The BBC Introducing Mixtape 🔊 (BBC 6 Music) - 6

on a virgin land, you seem to drift away
on the trail of someone from another plane
from a virgin land, you can't seem to escape
following a scent that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

on a virgin land, you seem to waste away
following a voice getting lost in a haze
on a virgin land, you crawl, day after day
following a sound that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

52 hertz

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
and I feel
I am prone to overfeeling
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

But these are only emotions
And none of them matter

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
(Burns it to the ground)
And I think
I am prone to overthinking
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

Cause it is all an Illusion
And none of it matters

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Illusions (Radio Edit)

Garvie is a singer-songwriter who spent too much time playing video games during lockdown… now he’s trapped in one. 

The debut self-produced single ‘Bad Person’, reflects his new world, fusing a guitar-based hook-laden chorus with generous scatterings of bit-crushed synths and videogame-style sound effects. The production brings Glass Animals to mind, the melody and lyrics encapsulate the fun and energy of early Wombats tunes and the straight-forward vocal delivery evokes shades of Panic! but with an unapologetically British accent and delivery.

Garvie’s brutally honest and literal lyrics leave no room for misinterpretation on this track – but his tongue somehow remains firmly in cheek. In Bad Person, he silences his critics by agreeing wholeheartedly with them. ‘I’m a bad person, I already know the worst’ bellows Garvie in the infectious and disarming chorus. “I’m not particularly bothered about the notion of being a ‘bad person’ because I think that most people are sometimes” Garvie explains.

The sounds support his 8-bit visual style perfectly – the video for ‘Bad Person’ is a fully animated videogame-based story set out over 2 levels chronicling the life and struggles of being an indie musician and striving to sign a record deal with FatCat Records*. Sounds familiar…

*may or may not be a real label

Garvie

Bad Person

Fine

No Gloom

Don't Ever Hide Your Face

You're an Animal

I'm a Dinosaur

Garvie takes the AI conversation and holds it up to a fun-house mirror with Default, a frenetic pop rock stomper. 

Default opens with a groove-laden, rough and-ready garage rock beat - but that’s far too simple cool for Garvie’s liking. It didn’t take co-producers Garvie and props long to cover this simple canvas in irreverent lyrics, bit-crushed synths and cartoonish SFX (banana peels, anyone?). Default walks a hyperactive tightrope between the extremes of cool minimalism and pure fun, where Queens of the Stone Age’s sense of groove and Metronomy’s production style can be gleamed.

“I like to make music that nods to the past in a fun way whilst sounding modern at the same time.” Garvie explains. “While it’s fairly tongue-in-cheek lyrically, Default is ultimately about feeling obsolete and replace-able in a relationship, which is why it uses quite a lot of computer-based references. It’s also got a lot of parallels with all of the recent developments in AI, which have definitely made me feel like I might be obsolete soon as a human artist!”

Default

'QUICKSAND' by FloodHounds
Released 27th October 2023

Produced by Gavin Monaghan, Magic Garden Studios
Mastered by Dick Beetham @ 360 Mastering
Artwork by Jack Flynn

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EMAIL: jack@floodhounds.com
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- LYRICS -

Two step forwards, another backwards
Out on the front line, standing on a land mine
It looks so easy until I'm on my own feet
And faster than the blink of an eye

Feels like I'm losing control 
I don't know which way to go
Feels like I'm losing control 
You'd think by now I'd have learned 

It looks so easy when you hand it to me
Scrawled on the back page a message from the stone age 
And as it crumbles I begin to stumble
Falling through a trapdoor

Feels like I'm losing control  
I don't know which way to go
Feels like I'm losing control 
You'd think by now I'd have learned 

If you try to run and hide 
Then you'll never turn the tide
Endlessly lost at sea
Wasting all your energy
 
You want it, you got it
I need to see you on it
You wanted to feel it
So show me that you mean it

First hand, wandering the wasteland
All I see is quicksand, lapping at my feet
Fall down, catch you on the rebound
Nothing left to say, nothing here left to see

Feel like I'm losing control 
I don't know which way to go
Feels like I'm losing control 
You'd think by now I'd have learned. 
But I know I will return

Quicksand

Taken from the forthcoming album Cheers Love (released 03 Nov 2023).

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/passing-fad-single/1701613389
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hREuygdELMGYZXKQYjtWa?si=57f6dacaafed495b

Passing Fad - Single

Passing Fad

Do The Right Thing is the first of a new batch of HAARM singles which will be released every 6 weeks leading to their debut album which is coming out digitally and on ltd edition vinyl in April 2024 (not announced yet). They return to the live stage on Oct 26th 2023 at The Shipping Forecast in Liverpool with support from Niki Kand and Tweak before embarking on a string of UK and EU dates at the start of 2024. HAARM have previously provided the sound track to the Premier League on BT Sport and have enjoyed multiple syncs on Sky Atlantic, BBC and Amazon Prime programmes and have gained support for previous singles on Radio 1, 6 Music and Radio X. We have members of King Hannah, Banners, a Bongo's Bingo Host and a Doctor in the band.

HAARM Do The Right Thing MASTER B

Thawed

'Jupiter' is the second single from Pocket Sun's debut album 'Mirror in Blue Light'.
Released 1st December 2023.

~ Credits ~
Produced by Josh Best-Shaw at Small Hours Studio
Mastered by James Trevascus
Artwork by Gina Marie Tratt

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcXo753-CM

~ Video Credits ~
Alien played by Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
Directed by Gina Marie Tratt & Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
DOP & Editor - Gina Marie Tratt
Make Up & Assistant - Tarryn van Biljon

Jupiter

Atlantis

Downer Disco

Moment

I Want

Garvie is a songwriter who spent too much time playing video games during lockdown… now he’s trapped in one.

That’s OK though – life in the real world wasn’t for Garvie. He spent years writing for other artists and cutting his teeth on the London live scene, but the lightbulb moment came when the gigs stopped, the Gameboy turned on and he learned to produce during 2020.

Garvie was forced to immerse himself in creating a sound of his own for once. What emerged was a sound-world that mixes the signature guitar grooves and bigger choruses of his past writing projects with the synths and cheeky 8-bit throwbacks of his new videogame existence. This sound is complemented by his animated DIY videos which use retro gaming graphics and Instagram filters to tell his story.

Lyrically Garvie is straight-talking with a touch of the dramatic and an unshakeable dry sense of humour. These are complemented by a voice which Frank Turner once commended for its authenticity.

With his first three singles Garvie has received airplay from BBC Radio 6 (Tom Robinson called his first single ‘Bad Person’ an ‘irresistible earworm’), consistent airplay on all 3 releases from BBC Introducing and also regular airplay from Amazing Radio in the UK and US.

Bad Person

Garvie

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