LEMONDAZE

Initially forming in 2016, Cambridge quartet Lemondaze have become one of the finest emerging talents in Britain’s burgeoning alternative music scene thanks to their transcendental brand of shoegaze.

Their debut EP Celestial Bodies is a testament to this- featuring swirling guitars and hypnotic drums that form to create an ethereal experience that enables the band to convey their varying expressions of cis and non-cisgenders and sexualities.

TREEBOY AND ARC

Formed in 2016, Treeboy & Arc started out playing gigs on the landings of their parents’ houses, their friends’ house parties and the smaller venue circuit around the city. Their early music was consistently high octane, reflective of their adolescent energy at the time.

In early 2018, the band moved in together in to a small red-brick terraced house in the heart of LS6. Quickly converting their basement in to a small and damp rehearsal space made up of some egg box sound-proofing and an old carpet donated by a parent. It was at this stage the band’s sound started slowly developing and maturing into the music they perform today. As their writing has become influenced by a broader spectrum of music, Treeboy & Arc have found themselves somewhere in-between genres. Art-Rock? Kraut-Rock?

Since then, the band have shared stages with the likes of Parquet Courts, Shame, Ulrika Spacek & Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever to name a few, whilst slowly gaining the love of the locals, selling out hometown shows on a number of occasions, alongside shows in other cities around the UK.

Their most recent release ’Life Preserver’ is a four-track EP written and recorded throughout the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020. It is the band’s first bigger release which showcases the more mature and refined sound they have grown into.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Think girl/boy centred vocals and eccentric fuzzed guitars lying on a bed of break beats and thunderous bass.

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