Excellent track. I appreciate the sophistication and compelxity. For me, the drum pattern is a little busy and at tiems distracting, that's just one guy's opinion! Otherwise, so well produced.

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Niche Crush - Every Text Is Like A Little Letter EP
Release Date 10/11/23 via My Band’s Better 


“Fantastically Indie” - Steve Lamacq, 6 Music 

“Every song is a winner. I think they're great and they live up to their name. Niche Crush, they could well be our Niche Crush.” 
John Kennedy, Radio X


Niche Crush are Ollie & Loz. a Manc and a Scouser now living by the sea in Margate. They formed in late 2021 after drinking too many bottles of orange WKD and deciding it would be a good idea to start a band and play a gig at a spoken word event in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales. We don’t know why or how this was allowed to happen but it did, the gig went well and they got asked back to do another one! They quite like Merthyr Tydfil and the people of Merthyr Tydfil seemed to like them too. Buoyed on by these rather successful, but rather ill advised gigs (Merthyr Tydfil is a long, long way from Margate), they’ve since been busy sat in a bedroom in Margate drinking more orange WKD, writing and recording music and this summer saw them play a whole host of gigs outside of Wales including London, Manchester and numerous shows in Margate.

They have about 48 songs so far, and yes, they are all named after people. People they love, people they hate, some are real and some are fake. It’s probably a bad idea to start a new band with such a silly concept but hey, why not?

Every Text Is A Little Letter is a collection of 3 of those songs and is the band’s first offering to the world after much procrastination. All recorded in their bedroom and we think it sounds boss!

Simon is about a chap called Simon and is based on teenage lyrics found in the loft. Romeo is named after Romeo Stodart off of the Magic Numbers but has nothing to do with him, they just liked the name. Gareth is actually about their friend Gareth, he’s actually a lovely chap and frankly they’re really worried about him ever hearing it…

What does the future hold for Niche Crush? We’re guessing 2024 will see more more orange WKD drunk, more songs written, recorded and released. They're busy booking more gigs atm and finishing up the mixes of EP2 and EP3!

Oh and ideally they’d like someone to like them, give them gigs, play them on radio and then get a massive fuck off (or even a teeny weeny) record deal, failing that some free bottles of orange WKD would be nice…

Romeo

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Official video:
https://youtu.be/njYVmQEC7Nc?si=ELFqcusnS85TwCvd

You All Don't Know Me

Lyrics:
You’re better at 
Falling backwards 
Then you are at
Moving in reverse
You do the same damn thing every week 
Painting your nails 
Getting the same bitter coffee 
This cricks always the same 

Déjà vu  
 
You’re stuck 
Undone 
Unwound 
Unraveling twine 
Finding yourself 
Tired 
Of calling 
The same damn numbers 
Saying the same words 
Over and over 
About the same things you always do

You’re better at 
Falling backwards 
Then you are at
Moving in reverse
You do the same damn thing every week 
Painting your nails 
Getting the same bitter coffee

Bitter Coffee

I will sing
Unto The Lord
My Saviour
My God

My Praise Feat Iyinoluwa

In shadows cast by his conscience
He hides
The dual embrace of regrets
And lies

A symphony of contrition
Repeats
His senses grind to a halt
As he leaps

Is he 4 Real?
Yes he can view the world with wide open eyes
Is he 4 Real?
Yes he can be the child whose too raw to lie

All the beauty of devoted butterflies
They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket

The Sakura bleeds
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out

Is he 4 real?
Is he 4 real?

He
A Cherry Blossom Tree
That stands to reason
Stands to reason

All the beauty of devoted butterflies
They decorate the sky above the cherry blossom blanket

The Sakura bleeds
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white
Bleeding pink and white to purge the demons out

Sakura Bleeds

I BREAK HORSES & VISA VERSA

Promises

PSALMS – VOL. IX: WATCHTOWER HYMNS – The Shaken Remnant

Synopsis:
Volume IX (Psalms 121–135) plays like a staircase of choir songs for travelers—pilgrims singing under a watchful God. It opens with “Keeper of My Steps,” a steady ascent psalm about the God who doesn’t sleep, then enters the city with “City of Our Feet,” praying peace over old stones and thrones. “Eyes Lifted Higher” cries for mercy under scorn, and “If Not for You” is a full-choir testimony of almost being swept away. The middle stretch circles trust and community: “Like the Mountain” anchors faith in a ring of hills, “Tears in One Hand” walks the path of sowing in grief and reaping in laughter, “House We Can’t Build” and “Belonging at the Table” frame home, children, and daily work as gifts you can’t secure by hustle alone. The back half leans harder into scars and quiet hope: “Lines on My Back” remembers persecution without surrender, “Watchman’s Morning” waits for God like dawn on night shift, “Quieted” is a tiny lullaby of humility, “Promise in the Bones” sings David’s oath and God’s reply, “Oil and Dew” celebrates unity as thick blessing, “Night Shift Blessing” nods to those who worship in the dark hours, and “Name Above the Noise” closes with a full-band choir anthem over dead idols and fading empires. Arrangements are choir-forward—call-and-response, stacked harmonies, and room-singing energy—while still sounding like a Shaken Remnant record, not a worship set.

Promise in the Bones | Psalm 132

Housemusic (Original Mix)

Play-listed on BBC6 Music (“Carjacked Onesie” & “Brave Jamel”) & BBC Tees (>15 songs).

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