Four voices collaborating to sing about the lure of attraction and lust in a stylish way. London based quartet WOOM used elements of folk and dream pop to create five top shelf pastoral pop for their To Slow You EP. Alice Barlow, Lara Laeverenz, Ella Rimmer, and Izzy Risk bonded over a love for harmony, at first by doing covers, like pretty much every band does - some of them ended up on their debut release Into the Rest in 2021, before going on stage with their own material.
They did not rush things and kept chipping away until they ended with a barebones approach to let their vocals do the talking, with sparse musical accompaniment. The human voice is the oldest musical instrument after all and by layering their vocals, and having a bit of beautiful call and response going, they turned To Slow You into a real gem, that deserves to be studied carefully.
To Slow You is released via House Anxiety.
Tracks:- Be Brave
- Circe
- Welts
- Slow You
- The Dance
- 09/26 London @ ICA
- 11/28 Ipswich @ St. Stephens Church
- 12/09 Edinburgh @ Sneaky Pete's
- 12/11 Norwich @ NAC
- 12/14 Manchester @ Band On The Wall
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