Blaenavon: Artist To Watch
Blaenavon (photo by Steve Gullick, courtesy of Transgressive)
In the spirit of music discovery which guides WFUV, our DJs offer their favorite new artists on the cusp of making it to the next level.
Back in 2013, this talented British trio of teenage schoolmates from Hampshire released a single, “Into the Night,” which earned them buzzy coverage in the UK music press.
But rather than tumbling headlong into a too-fast release of a debut album, the members of Blaenavon (pronounced Bly-nah-vin) wisely took their time, toured, finished school exams, released a couple of EPs and refined the band’s boisterous guitar rock with layered, polyrhythmic nuances.
Blaenavon’s forthcoming 2017 debut album, produced by Jim Abbiss, is an adventurous tour de force.
