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With Support From Lurker and Noise Factory United
The Bristol-formed group, named by DIY as ‘boundary-pushing’, have unveiled their latest track, produced by band members Eric Davies and Claudia Vulliamy in their East London studio. The track was mixed by Matteo Buccomino and mastered by John Webber.
Marking a new era since their highly-praised 2023 debut EP Back To Nothing (released via Ali Chant’s Fascination Street Records), ‘Sally’ brings us straight in with a punchy and relentlessly catchy bassline. Clean and intricately syncopated, this track is a lusciously textured showcase of Oslo Twins’ evolving sound, which is venturing into cleaner, more electronic territory.
Hidden in the song’s infectious beat and joyful synths, there is a tone of yearning and melancholia. Pithy and vernacular lyrics in the verses hint at hidden emotions, while the chorus reveals what’s behind the cool facade:
“Each release only seems to get catchier.”
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LURKER
LURKER is an alternative folk project that wonders through the shadows of our existence. Sitting somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, listeners are invited to a lucid concoction of peak emotions that tells stories to envision.
Noise Factory United
Peddlers of apocalypse anxieties through a gnarly trill of guitar and synth.
Drawing from the grit of early social realist writers, these four compadres are trying to make sense of the fractured intensity of modern life. They don’t do songs about unrequited love or plunge into the self-obsession of minor narcissisms. No wistful romance, no solipsistic spirals, and no power ballads. Just socially-driven, self-deprecating songs about the grey and enigmatic zones of the everyday in their port city of Portsmouth.
Musically, NFU resist easy categorisation but comparisons at gigs include elements of early era Magazine, Gang of Four, or Wire, along with outbursts of Manda Rin.
Over the past year, the band has generated online interest with reviews in York Calling and Louder Than War and are gaining traction at gigs. They’re ecstatic at an invitation to perform in October 2025 at Supersonic Record’s TGBB Festival in Paris. This will be followed by a couple of performances in Bristol, and another in Portsmouth in early 2026. In the past, they’ve played in the south coast’s established indie venues of The Railway, The Joiners, Heartbreakers, The Wedgewood rooms, Bear Cave, as well as in Northampton.
NFU are currently putting the final touches to their debut EP Visions from the frontier.
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