Music News - Bitter Defeat Release Debut Single 'Light That Shines'
31 August 2020 - 0 Comments
Kirikiriroa/Hamilton-based indie-rock band Bitter Defeat today released their debut single Light That Shines.
One of several songs recorded over a two-day session at Hamilton’s The Porch Studio, (by long-time The Datsuns sound engineer and collaborator Scott Newth), Light That Shines is the first release from the five-piece, who list the likes of The Wedding Present, Guided By Voices, The Clean, Galaxie 500 and Pavement amongst their influences.
Bitter Defeat began life as a solo project in 2017 and consisted of crudely-produced half-songs by Rob Shirlow, who runs HUP, (Hamilton Underground Press), and has played bass in post-rock band Sora Shima and shoegaze band Ancient Tapes. “I was putting on shows for HUP, getting inspired by loads of amazing acts and sat down one day to write something on my own. Eventually a few things sounded ok enough to share, so I did that and a few people whose opinion matters to me seemed to like it. I think they were being genuine. So that was nice. But most of all I liked it, and that was quite a thing actually, to be proud of something I’d done on my own.”
Fast-forward a couple of years and Bitter Defeat has become a full band – Rob Shirlow (Guitar, Vocals), Ben Manning (Guitar, Backing vocals), Kathryn Thompson (Drums), Ian Duggan (Casiotone), Julian White (Bass, Backing vocals) – and has played a string of neat shows with the likes of The Bats, Hamish Kilgour, and John Davis of Folk Implosion.
“Light That Shines came about from messing around with a riff stored on my phone, coupled with some words which landed in my head when I was thinking about the last time, I saw my Nan. Nans are amazing people aren’t they? When you’re old enough to have really good questions to ask them, it’s too late. Ben came up with the main chorus line which was really great and we decided to try a duet type thing which works really well I think.”
Bitter Defeat plans to release two more singles online in the coming months, after which the band plans to put them all together on a 7” EP via Kirikiriroa-based Gravel Streak Records.
In the meantime Light That Shines is available to download from Bandcamp https://bitterdefeat.bandcamp.com/ or stream on Spotify, Apple Music and all the usual places.
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