Welcome Strangers: Vinyl LP The Bled being included in flagship playlists

being included in flagship playlists and programmes by multiple streaming services and being placed on countless ‘best of’ & ‘one to watch’ lists

realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions

From the darkly moody “Black Widow” to the eerily beautiful “Aberfan” the skillfully constructed 16-track score evokes the turbulence of both the times and inner lives of the Windsor family

seen collaborations on soundtracks including The Snowman and The Snowdog and last year composing the soundtrack for Ricky Gervais’ critically acclaimed After Life

Welcome Strangers: Vinyl LP The Bled being included in flagship playlistsWelcome Strangers is the second record by feral pop outliers Modern Studies. Elegiac and haunted, life giving and triumphant, this beguiling return digs deep into landscapes both real and imagined, internal and external, in a work that might perhaps best be described as kosmiche choral or, if were pushing it arts und crafts werk. Or, put simply, glorious pop music. It is an elemental and often spectral world of contrasting tones and hues that is found