Hailed for her 'feral guitar ' and 'torn-from-the-chest lyrics,' Bryde is touring to support the release of her debut album ‘Like An Island,' and Bedford is getting a look in.
Recorded between LA and London, the album is just out on her own independent and female-centric label Seahorse Music.
Striking a masterful balance between spacious atmospherics and out-and-out rock, Bryde comes recommended for fans of Warpaint, PJ Harvey, Big Thief…
After setting up her label Seahorse Music to publish records by like-minded women and help make them more visible in a male-dominated industry, BRYDE finished up her debut LP Like An Island flitting between London and LA.
Exploring themes of independence, liberation, and relationships, her inimitable brand of candid indie rock is realised with mixing help from Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and St Vincent), and mastering by Mandy Parnell.
Lyrically, London based Bryde finds intense internal poetry in everyday adversity. While concentrating thematically on life and human interaction, her songwriting persona wears her bruised yet resolute heart on her sleeve.
For the Wales-born songwriter, it’s not just the technical precision of her lyrics that resonate with a widening fanbase, it’s also her vocal delivery.
On her latest song To Be Brave Bryde’s voice carries us beyond the imprecision of words into feelings we all know but can’t delineate.
As she says: “To Be Brave was written as kind of a soft squeeze of the hand to many friends who have, like me, been through many a dark period and put on a brave face and just got on with it. It’s a comment about how we all live out certain episodes of our lives in such a public setting these days that I feel we almost edit them to appear flawless, nothing but smiles.”.
To Be Brave is a shock to the system of preconceived notions about the style of artistBryde is. She’s rock and roll for sure, but protean and poetic, a rocker in the vein of Patti Smith.
Catch her live at Esquires on April 27.
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