Sky Barkers last featured on Folk Radio as a duo with their jazzy-folk-tinged Extended Play (2020). Now, Jo and Dan Messore have been joined by Matt Brown, the addition of which brings a whole new dynamic and drive to their music which is described as “groove-based, hook heavy, vocal laden music – lyrically connective and energy driven, rooted in song-writing but with a wonky edge.”
The shift is quite dramatic, as can be heard on ‘Beholden to None’ (out on 4 March via Bubblewrap Records), their first single as a trio. The track carries psych-tinged echoes of Midlake but with more light that’s underpinned by a tight bouncy, playful groove. Based in coastal West Wales, this is music for late-night beach campfires…blissful escapism, free from the mundane and beholden to none.
Sky Barkers:
“This is a song that invites you into one of my regular day dreams – what would life be like if I was a wanderer, a rover, a free soul flitting from town to countryside, sleeping in nooks of the earth and following old paths? Of course, it’s is a romanticised version of what it would actually be like to live that way – its more about that deep, simple urge to just get up and walk off. To be answerable to no one, leave no forwarding address – to know that no governing body or co-orperate nonsense can find you. To be elusive, beholden to none but the night sky”.
PRE-SAVE BEHOLDEN TO NONE (out 4th March via Bubblewrap Records)
Website: https://skybarkers.com/
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