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One to watch: Honesty
The Leeds collective prefer our attention be focused not on them but their moodily atmospheric electronic sound
Honesty, from Leeds, seem to recognise this conundrum: they’d rather be portrayed as a fluid collective rather than a rigid group, and their promotional images tend to obscure their faces with shadow, or just show the back of their heads. To their mums, Honesty are George Mitchell, Matt Peel, Josh Lewis and Imi Marston(plus a revolving carousel of collaborators and guest vocalists such as Liam Bailey), drawn from the ashes of various former indie bands including Eagulls. Honesty’s debut album for Partisan Records, U R Here, is categorised as “unknown genre” – another knowing nod to their unwillingness to be boxed in – and blurs krautrock, shoegaze, trip-hop and alt-pop into a moody, grainy whole.
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