Gulp are a Cardiff-based, garage space-pop band fronted by Guto Pryce (Super Furry Animals) & Lindsey Leven.The pair are joined by Gid Goundrey on guitar and various friends on drums including Stuart Kidd (Euros Child/Norman Blake), Kliph Scurlock (Flaming Lips/ Gruff Rhys), Gwion Lleweyln (Meilir Jones) & others.
Originally from Scotland, vocalist Lindsey moved to Cardiff to where she met Guto Pryce at a Christmas psych party a joining of kindred spirits in a city with an ever-evolving arts scene. It was there that the foundations of Gulp came to be as they joined forces to create this musical venture.
Gulp make warm, fuzzy, luscious pop by combining ethereal sounds of both acoustic and electric drums, synths and guitars. Their music is like a road trip; the landscape and events along the way, filmic scenes and melodies – from the sun-squinting, flickering saturation and lens flare of the Californian desert, to the gloamin of rural Scottish and Welsh homescapes.
Recorded on a farm in mid Wales, new single ‘Search For Your Love’ follows on from the band’s last album release ‘Season Sun’ in 2014, which received praise from The Guardian, The Quietus, NME & a variety of other publications. Currently they’re sharing their new single ‘Search For Your Love’, which is out now via Tim Burgess’ label O Genesis.
Describing the influences behind Search For Your Love, Lindsey notes, “it’s a timeless love story really, but nods towards an eager search for love and empathy in an increasingly surreal and chaotic world.” The world may be chaotic, but Search For Your Love soundtracks it beautifully with meancing percussion, overlaid with sweeping 1980’s tinged synths and Lindsey’s sweet and almost ethereal vocal stylings. Gulp are currently working on their second album with producer Luke Abbot, which should be with us next year at some point.
Gulp Debut LP Season Sun out now
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