Communion sign new band HONEYMOAN
14 November 2019 - Press release
South Africa’s most exciting new export HONEYMOAN sign to Communion Records for the release of their second EP, ‘Weirdo’, and reveal the massive first single ‘Still Here’ today…
The announcement comes ahead of their first live shows in the UK, concluding the European tour with dates in Manchester and Brighton before playing at Paper Dress Vintage in London on 20th November.
The four-piece, originally all from Cape Town, have been making global moves from the outset and now making clear their intentions by embarking on their first European tour and signing to one of the UK’s most treasured labels.
With ‘Still Here’ dropping a week ahead of the show, the band’s singer Alison Rachel explains why their new release is special to her, and why it’s also easy to like and relatable for so many. “Still Here is simply about feeling the daily pressures that come with dealing with anxiety and depression and doing your best to hold things together when you really just can’t anymore. Although lyrically it’s the mostpersonal song that I’ve written, it’s turned into a really upbeat indie rock track that’s good for dancing!”
Having originally started more as an intimate dream pop affair, the band’s producer and bassist Josh Berry worked to evolve the essence of the song into something altogether much bigger. The combination of Kenan Tatt’s Bloc Party inspired drums and Skye MacInnes’ heavy washed out guitar drives the strong’s pop hooks up a notch. Skye adds… “I wanted to try and pull together a song that managed to blend angular power chords and distorted bass, but also disorientate you, and throw a little shoegaze in there”.
Together the band has already caught the attention of UK and US tastemakers with buzzy previous releases ‘We’ in 2018 and ‘Low Blow’ earlier this year. Owing their immediacy of their success to a well-balanced division of creative labour within the band, HONEYMOAN also collectively draw from a variety of previous experience in local projects, such as Sakawa Boys, Twin Weaver and Yndian Mynah. In doing so they’re able to take on a unique fusion of outside influences ranging from psychedelia, indie and shoegaze whilst soaking up the South African sounds around them.
HONEYMOAN strikes a perfect balance between instant appeal and a depth of sound, and with a statement like ‘Still Here’ and their upcoming second EP ‘Weirdo’ dropping on 21st February, are clearly a band that won’t go unnoticed in 2020.
Remaining tickets for HONEYMOAN at Paper Dress Vintage 20th November, available here:https://www.seetickets.com/event/honeymoan/paper-dress-vintage/1419526