Haunting harmonies, overlapped with a synergy of sugary melodies and psychedelic synth makes for my first package of pop this year. Hailing from Liverpool, everything seems all the more impressive when you consider that Stealing Sheep have only been together since the summer of 2010..in comparison, when I think of what I've achieved since then, it's fair to say, I'm shit. These girls are going places, they've already been esteemed by loads of super cool radio people and have graced various festivals with their abundance of talent. The future's bright, the future's sheepy.
First off, where are you in the world right now and what're you working on?
We just finished recording a live demo of our debut album in an abandoned school in Liverpool.
Could you give a brief Stealing Sheep history?
We started writing songs in the summer last year, we booked ourselves a tour in October and recorded our first EP that winter. On Valentines day 2011 we released our first single with an indie label in Manchester called Red Deer Club. We did a run of limited 7" singles called 'The Mountain Dogs'. Parallel to that we toured the UK again and stopped off for an XFM session with John Kennedy and dropped in (secretly) during the night to Abbey Road Studios where we recorded our second single 'I am the Rain'. We released this with a London label called Idle Fret in May, we toured Europe this summer and played a host of great festivals. An invite to Maida Vale studios for Rob Da Bank's Live lounge soon followed and we played live on Radio 1. Finally this winter we signed a record deal with Heavenly Recordings and released our first 12" mini-LP. We're now working on our debut record on sale summer next year!
Who did you grow up listening to?
We listened to a lot of classical music and were influence by our parents musical interested stuff like The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle, Vashti Bunyan, Madonna, Prince...all the classics!
Tell us a bit about the most recent song you've written.
We just wrote a song called 'We Like the Dark' at the moment it's 6 minutes long but that might change, it's quite jammy still with lots of chanting, it's a bit medieval in parts, a bit Easterny too.
What's the strangest subject you've ever written a song about?
Luy's got this lyric that goes ' you look so lizard like it's hot, like it's not, like it's force fed to you by the dark' we can only imagine what that's about!
What would you say was the perfect environment or situation to listen to your music in?
on a record player, with headphones, in bed.
What other artists are you into at the moment?
We're listening to Twin Sister, Tune Yards, PJ Harvey, Bjork and Still Corners in the car.
Where would you love to tour?
Japan!
Finally, what's next for you, future plans and such?
We're playing support for Field Music in February and we've been invited to play at SXSW and Sound City Newyork in March. The debut Album out this summer!
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