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One to watch: Divorce
Fresh from supporting Bombay Bicycle Club and Everything Everything, the Nottingham four-piece’s richly diverse sound is made for big-hearted storytelling
On the richly executed, emotionally resonant terrain of their debut album, Drive to Goldenhammer, Nottingham quartet Divorce head to a fictionalised town that, they say, is meant to symbolise the warmth and humanity they’ve always found within their East Midlands motherland. Both storytellers with an ear for a pleasingly odd detail and a delivery that leaves it all on the stage, they’re the endearing fulcrum at the centre of a band that musically bend all sorts of ideas – country; indie; heavy, shouty catharsis on Karen; Americana sweetness on Parachuter – to their own shape. Having recently supported Bombay Bicycle Club and Everything Everything, Divorce offer shades of both those bands’ approach to the smarter corners of commercial indie: the nuanced, wide-eyed romance of the former mixed with the nerdy playfulness of the latter.
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