The Leeds-based duo, Denton Thrift, has just released their new 4 track EP, ‘Sight’. Listen to any track and at any given point you’ll find yourself emerged in mellow synths, angelic vocals, and catchy melodies. Opening track ‘Confessional’ sets the tone and is a good indication of how the rest of the EP will follow: a cocktail of intricately produced percussion, beautifully blended harmonies and textural peaks and troughs that take you on a musical journey throughout. The scattering of piano and guitar inflections on ‘Something Real’ and haunting vocal snippets sprinkled across ‘First Light’ and ‘Sight’ are just a…
Author: Rachel Feehan
This year I had the amazing opportunity to attend Latitude Festival and even better, perform there alongside other Leeds Beckett students in collaboration with SBC Theatre Company. Latitude’s theme this year was ‘Utopia’ so for two weeks we pooled together our ideas about an ideal future and transformed these hopes and wishes into poetry, acting, song, dance and pretty much everything in between to create our show, ‘Manifesto Move!’. As a collective of music, dance and performance students these ideas were colourful and freeing but also quite heartbreaking. From tackling the double standards forced upon women, the unfairness of the…
‘Savant’ is the new EP brought to you by Swedish electro-pop trio, Vivii, consisting of four relaxing and uplifting tracks, making it perfect for easy background listening. Ambient synths, mystical guitars, and delicate vocals are woven throughout, proving it to be an electro-pop EP at heart. However, ViVii has cleverly combined this with other chilled, acoustic indie elements as well, shown most clearly through the rhythmic guitar, staccato bass and piano on the fourth track, ‘Siv (You and I)’. When listening to the EP in full, it’s clear how each song nicely transitions into the next. This is done in…
Leeds-based duo Denton Thrift recently revealed ‘Something Real’ (Feat. Mared), the second track from their forthcoming EP ‘Sight’, set for release this summer. ‘Something Real’ follows the release of three successful singles, ‘Confessional’, ‘Sweetest Taboo’ and ‘Fear In the Night’ from back in 2017. Initially, the most interesting element of the song is the calming instrumentation completely entices the listener and immediately helps you to relax and unwind. From the beautifully layered bed of synths to the minimalistic percussion, the piece establishes itself as an ethereal electro-pop ballad from the second it begins, allowing you to temporarily forget your troubles and…