The High Wire
- Location: London,
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- Bio: The High Wire’s unique brand of dreamy luscious “ecstasy pop” is a blend of acoustic based melodies infused within a mix of heavy distortion, driving guitars and deliriously chanted ... (more)
- Bio: The High Wire’s unique brand of dreamy luscious “ecstasy pop” is a blend of acoustic based melodies infused within a mix of heavy distortion, driving guitars and deliriously chanted vocal harmonies. Their brilliant new album ‘The Sleep Tape’, due for release in March, was produced by the band themselves with additional production and mixing by Rik Simpson, who has previously worked with the likes of Blur, Portishead, Coldplay and PJ Harvey.
Forthcoming single ‘The Midnight Bell’, sets the sun scorched hazy tone for the album; one that will wrap you up and float you over the low-gravity terrain of the aptly named ‘The Sleep Tape’. This collection of songs is the perfect soundtrack for that place between sleep and awakening where your eyelids flicker and you come to exist in a blurred, alternate reality. The original outline for the album was to conceptualize the idea of sleep itself but quickly broke the boundaries of its remit as singer Tim’s lyrics began to explore other familiar topics like love and heartache.
As you drift away into The High Wire’s full debut, the beautiful ‘Honeycomb’ quietly clears the path for the rumbling runaway distortion of ‘Odds & Evens’ (“the perfect summer single” - The Sunday Times Culture) to bring you back down to Earth. The constant juxtaposition of the male/female contrasting lead vocals continually delight throughout the album, reaching climax in the chanting anthem and live favourite ‘A Future Ending’ before a post coital breather is required in the simply gorgeous ‘Exit’. The building crescendo of ‘Pump Your Little Heart’ sees the album issue its triumphant parting breath in fine form before being put to bed by the twinkling instrumental of closer ‘Bodyclocks’.
Tim Crompton (lead vocals, guitar), Stuart Peck (guitar, vocals) and Alexia Hagen’s (keys, vocals) heavenly pop dreamscapes are faint echoes of the sounds of early nineties shoegaze and alt-rock, blowing a fresh yet wistful breath into a sound pioneered by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Band Of Horses and Mercury Rev.The High Wire’s unique brand of dreamy luscious “ecstasy pop” is a blend of acoustic based melodies infused within a mix of heavy distortion, driving guitars and deliriously chanted vocal harmonies. Their brilliant new album ‘The Sleep Tape’, due for release in March, was produced by the band themselves with additional production and mixing by Rik Simpson, who has previously worked with the likes of Blur, Portishead, Coldplay and PJ Harvey.
Forthcoming single ‘The Midnight Bell’, sets the sun scorched hazy tone for the album; one that will wrap you up and float you over the low-gravity terrain of the aptly named ‘The Sleep Tape’. This collection of songs is the perfect soundtrack for that place between sleep and awakening where your eyelids flicker and you come to exist in a blurred, alternate reality. The original outline for the album was to conceptualize the idea of sleep itself but quickly broke the boundaries of its remit as singer Tim’s lyrics began to explore other familiar topics like love and heartache.
As you drift away into The High Wire’s full debut, the beautiful ‘Honeycomb’ quietly clears the path for the rumbling runaway distortion of ‘Odds & Evens’ (“the perfect summer single” - The Sunday Times Culture) to bring you back down to Earth. The constant juxtaposition of the male/female contrasting lead vocals continually delight throughout the album, reaching climax in the chanting anthem and live favourite ‘A Future Ending’ before a post coital breather is required in the simply gorgeous ‘Exit’. The building crescendo of ‘Pump Your Little Heart’ sees the album issue its triumphant parting breath in fine form before being put to bed by the twinkling instrumental of closer ‘Bodyclocks’.
Tim Crompton (lead vocals, guitar), Stuart Peck (guitar, vocals) and Alexia Hagen’s (keys, vocals) heavenly pop dreamscapes are faint echoes of the sounds of early nineties shoegaze and alt-rock, blowing a fresh yet wistful breath into a sound pioneered by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Band Of Horses and Mercury Rev. (less)
