15 Feb 2012

Black Heart

Black Diamond Bay

unsigned

WE SAY

Black Heart has to be Black Diamond Bay's best track yet, with a great so-called 'slo-mo' groove, and soulful sultry vocal reminiscent of St Etienne or Martina Topley-Bird. It's certainly a promising glimpse into the band's forthcoming album. We noticed the five-piece when they featured as a Tip of The Week on the BBC Introducing blog back in September and got hooked. They played Leeds and Reading on the Introducing stage and have picked up strong support from Radio 1, Xfm, 6Music and Kiss. We can expect the album to surface later this year and can't wait to hear more. For now they are unsigned, but if they keep producing songs like this we can't see that being the case for long.

London Gig: March 3, Barfly NW1 // April 28, Queen Of Hoxton EC2

CONTACTS

Management: Tim Ferrone at Safe Management - +44 (0)1276 476 676 
Radio: Sean Denny - +44 (0)7933 364 433 
Press & online: Ben Harris, Run Music - +44 (0)20 7485 1141 

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