The Wax Birds are an acoustic, country-folk duo based on the West Coast of Canterbury. Originally from Yorkshire (UK), the duo took advantage of the down time, during the chaos of 2020, to create their own unique sound and brand of country folk ballads as well as reinventing some of their favourite and most inspired cover songs.

A Steady Hope opens on Bell & Hall, which draws similarities to Eva Cassidy or early Dolly Parton with its story telling narrative and soft vocal stylings that intertwine effortlessly with each other. The new album follows a pattern, of which many can relate to, coming to grips of becoming a new parent. In the track Co-Parent the lyrics “I know when you look at her, you think she’s look a little like me” are pretty descriptive and telling for that time. The Wax Birds clearly have a love for storytelling, with tracks like ‘Don’t want to know’ and Perfect Example, showing their ability to articulate, imagine and draw you into their perception of the world. 

This is the first release since their second album Yellowhammer in 2023, Pete (guitarist and vocalist) claims "For me, recording our music at home and putting it out there is more about the documenting of work, telling the story of our own journeys, sharing our own feelings and passions, and not letting our art disappear with us - a common thought shared with our friends who are older musicians.”

Walk The World really demonstrates the soulful country style vocal, reminiscent of Anthony Hamilton and Elayna Boynton on tracks like ‘Freedom”, and really shows the range in which The Wax Birds are capable of exploring. It’s hard to pin point a style, or a comparison on A Steady Hope, I hear ‘The Beautiful South’ then ‘She and Him' and even a bit of delta blues from the 1950's and 60's.

Regardless of genre intertwining styles, A Steady Hope is a great and rounded record that’s starts hopeful and ends hopeful with the final track Easy, a nice end to a very personal account of one couples journey from parenthood to a new, potentially challenging, future, where in each other they can find solace “Easy come and easy go, but that's not really true, because nothings been as easy as loving you’ 

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  Outside In
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  Fraser Ross
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  Horror Story
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  Head Like A Hole
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  Fur Patrol
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  Michelle Rounds
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  L.A.B.
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  The Boondocks
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  Late to Chelsea
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  Us As Robots

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  Marlin's Dreaming @ TSB Showplace, New Plymouth - 13/09/2024
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  DIE WITH A SMILE
  Lady Gaga And Bruno Mars
• 2
  TASTE
  Sabrina Carpenter
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  BIRDS OF A FEATHER
  Billie Eilish
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  ESPRESSO
  Sabrina Carpenter
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  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
  Sabrina Carpenter
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  A BAR SONG (TIPSY)
  Shaboozey
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  LOSE CONTROL
  Teddy Swims
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  GOOD LUCK, BABE!
  Chappell Roan
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  TOO SWEET
  Hozier
• 10
  BED CHEM
  Sabrina Carpenter

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