Description
26th June 2025 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm26th June 2025 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm“suffocating, surreal, grotty and gorgeous” The Line of Best Fit
“their capricious sound regularly strays far from centre” Loud & Quiet
‘Gloss’ generates an unnerving atmosphere-the quartet’s trademark restrained guitar beds are accompanied by anew element, tension-spiking discordant violin and cello drones, from Felix Stephens (Jockstrap, Famous, Geordie Greep) and Lottie Pendelbury (Goat Girl). Vocalist Ned Greentalk-sings a breathy soliloquy, before the track shifts gears as quasi-mettalic riffs kick in. This isn’t the quiet-then-loud optimism of the 90s-rather the uncanny perception whiplash of a lucid nightmare.
On the new single’s origins, the band say: “Gloss came out of a doomed trip to France at the start of a new wave of writing for us. It feels like a bridge between what we were and what we are now, as a band and as individuals, high and low.”
Whilst remaining left field in spirit, there is a musical vulnerability to the latest iteration of Legss, and a newfound pop sensibility to their writing, which reflects a move to a more accessible sound. There is a security in inaccessibility, and shedding this cloak opens the band up to an earnestness at once exciting and nerve-wracking. Twinned with their signature world-building aesthetic, the new direction is reflected sonically by drummer Louis Grace, who co-produced the single with Balazs Altsach (Ugly, Katy J Pearson, Broadside Hacks)-set to be distributed by The state 51 Conspiracy.
26th June 2025 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm
