London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have revealed their new single "Dream On" and its accompanying music video.
The song is taken from their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash', set to be released on April 22 through their own UNREAL imprint. Pre-order your copy here.
Frontman Kevin Lee Kharas explains: “The song is also a love song, a song about sadness being brought out into the light. I don’t tend to write happy songs. But when you fall in love at first sight surrounded by all your best friends in a basement club on a humid Thursday night in July, it’s hard to remain neutral. Especially when you factor in the 2-for-1 deal on bottles of Canei.”
London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have announced the release of their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash'.
The follow up to 2015's debut Real Life, will be out on April 22 through their own UNREAL imprint. Pre-order your copy here.
On Lad Ash lyricist Kevin Lee Kharas romanticises ecstasy-fuelled teenage joyrides that set the coordinates for two decades of thrill-seeking hedonism. A wild period that resulted in both the group’s euphoric 2015 debut and the prolonged six-year wait for its follow up.
In places, that euphoria remains – they’ve never sounded higher than on ‘Dream On’ – but generally the mood here is darker, more late-night, club-ready and ruminative. There are songs about losing childhood friends in mysterious circumstances (‘Dolphin Junction’), bandmates (‘Boss Trick’ is a wake for former member Tom Watson), childhood innocence (‘An Oral History Of My First Kiss’) and huge swathes of memory (‘The Carousel’). As the title implies, Lad Ash is a coming-of-age album that draws out the beauty and longing of the young British male experience by reframing it through an elegiac, at times almost gothic, lens.
In a press release, speaking about he new single/video Kharas said: “Oral History” is a song about girls with Saturday jobs and boys with nothing to do finding magic in each other, in boring places with boring people who have cruel and stupid ideas about anything or anyone who’s different. The video is meant to reflect that sense of being young and stuck somewhere, waiting for something to happen."
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "An Oral History Of My First Kiss", below.
London bedroom pop/electronic duo Real Lies have shared the video for their new single "Your Guiding Hand".
The song is taken from their long-awaited sophomore album 'Lad Ash'. Get it here.
From the duo: "We have a new song out today. It’s called Your Guiding Hand and it’s a song about life and death in the English rain. Sometimes friends go missing along the way. But in moments like those you shared with them - parties, funfairs, night drives - sometimes the memory of them swims around you so vividly it’s like they’ve come back. It’s meant as a song and a seance for all your fallen rave soldiers. And a promise on my behalf to live life guided by their questing spirit and memory."
London bedroom pop/electronic outfit Real Lies have returned with their brand new single "The Checks", accompanied by a lyric video.
About the song, the band explained: “The Checks is a list of questions arriving in a mind that knows it should be leaving. It was written on the streets of London on a hot summer’s night that was as lonely as it was euphoric.” Grab it here.
The video was directed by Natalia Stuyk, Watch it below.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies have revealed the video for "One Club Town".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Real Life', released in Rocktober last year via Marathon Artists. Grab it here.
The video was directed by Jonathan Entwistle. check out below.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies have released the video for their next single "Blackmarket Blues".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Real Life', set to be released on Rocktober 16 via Marathon Artists. Pre order your copy here.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies have premiered the video for their newest single "Seven Sisters".
The song is part of our current playlist and is the first taste from their debut album expected to be released this year via Marathon Artists. Get the single here.
The video was shot by Jonnie Craig. check out below.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies have premiered their brand new catchy single "Seven Sisters".
The song is out today (May 6) via Marathon Artists, and is the first taste from their debut album expected to be released this year. Get the single here.
London electronic/bedroom pop trio Real Lies have unleashed the video for their brand new single "North Circular".
The song, named after a stretch of motorway that snakes round north London, features on their forthcoming double-AA 12" single Dab Housing/North Circular, out soon via Marathon Artists
The video was directed by Joe Alexander, watch it below.
This month's BOTM on Kool Rock Radio is London bedroom pop trio REAL LIES.
Revealed back in July without further information, this exciting new band caught our attention with their smashing single "Deeper". Sitting somewhere between old rave records and modern electronic pop acts, Real Lies present a sound that would do equally as well in a club as it would on stage at a large festival.
According to the press, Real Lies' music expresses late-night euphoria at the same time as it embraces the horrors of the following afternoon, twinning street bravado with bedroom vulnerability, loss with longing. It is music about burying yourself in an avalanche of words and warm bodies in an endless search for the right ones. We couldn't agree more.
'World Peace / Deeper' is the first of three double A-sides from the band, and the first ever 12" pressing from London label Sweet Exile. It will be out on November 4.
Both tracks are brilliant and have all the hallmarks of an early 90s anthem, fans of New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Perfume, Flowered Up and Happy Mondays are sure to find plenty pleasurable about these tracks.
London bedroom pop trio Real Lies (one of our new favourite bands), have premiered the video for "World Peace", taken from their double A-side single 'World Peace/Deeper', which will be released via Sweet Exile/Marathon Artists on 4th November.
'World Peace' it's brilliant tune that has all the hallmarks of an early 90s anthem, fans of New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Perfume, Flowered Up and Happy Mondays are sure to find plenty pleasurable about this track.
The video was directed by filmmaker Rollo Jackson, who also directed the clip for "Deeper". Watch it below.
London brand new bedroom pop trio Real Lies have revealed the video for "Deeper", the first of three double A-side singles they will release on the also new London label Sweet Exile.
About the (long) vocal, Real Lies say: "it's a confessional monologue about trying to recreate going on holiday in London… Have we tried it? Yeah, we've been doing it for the last three years! When the sun comes out in London there’s no better place."
The video was directed by Rollo Jackson, who explains: "I was trying to capture that feeling of drunken dreamy memories, feelings of total elation and then despair which at times are very close. It’s saying how important those memories and moments can be – things shouldn't be devalued just because they're hazy or distant."
