“A brilliant
roots-rock band with solid gold tunes” (according to the late, lamented The Word magazine),
Morning Bride return with their long-awaited second album The North
Sea Rising, the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed debut Lea
Valley Delta Blues.
The
North Sea Rising is
in turn big-skied and lo-fi; sometimes dark, often blue, but ultimately
life-affirming, and always with an inherent pop sensibility. Variously
described as gothic Americana, off-kilter folk rock, alt-country pop and most
things in between, Morning Bride remain as resolutely impossible to define as
ever.
Created over
three days in a basement studio beneath a ukelele shop on East London's Brick
Lane, The North Sea Rising captures Morning Bride's natural
evolution towards a warmer and more intimate sound, allowing lead singer Amity
Joy Dunn's delicate, honey-dripping voice to truly shine, and Mark James
Pearson's songs to breathe more deeply.
Amity and
Mark's lush harmonies blend effortlessly with Pete Bennett’s bottleneck
guitar, against a backdrop of strings, melodicas and organs, creating a
trademark sound described by The Independent as 'astonishing'.
Morning Bride play Servant Jazz Quarters, 10 Bradbury Street, London N16 on
Saturday 16 March.
PRAISE FOR LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES.....
“ASTONISHING.... EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE
YOU STUMBLE UPON A BAND AND WONDER HOW IT IS THAT NOT MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT
THEM, BUT ARE SECRETLY PLEASED THEY DON'T. MORNING BRIDE ARE THAT KIND OF BAND”
- THE INDEPENDENT
"A SHIMMERING SLICE OF
ANGLO-AMERICANA TO DRINK AND DIE FOR" - PLAN B MAGAZINE
"SPELLBINDING" – R2
MAGAZINE
"ROOTSY
ROCK POP TUNES WITH BIG FAT HOOKS THAT ON ANY REASONABLE PLANET WOULD BE ALL
OVER YOUR RADIO” – 9 out of 10 - AMERICANA UK
"DARK
YET LUSH COUNTRY-TINGED POP - RECOMMENDED" - TIME OUT MAGAZINE