THE LITTLE UNSAID to embark on UK tour to share their latest album 'Lick The Future's Lips' - Tickets available NOW

October 6, 2021 Steve Muscutt

'Bold and different...Joni Mitchell, Roy Harper, a touch of Radiohead… stretches boundaries' - The Guardian

9/10 - ‘A stunning interpretation of contemporary chaos…a gorgeous whiplash of delirium and hazy reveries’ - The Line of Best Fit

★★★★★ ‘Mesmeric. Atmospheric. Totally beguiling’ - R’n’R (R2 Magazine)

‘Entrancing… songwriting of a real rich quality, all held together by an intensity of approach, by a focus on the emotional weight music can carry’- Clash Magazine

‘Extraordinary music...this is an amazing act’ - Bob Harris

London/Aarhus-based band The Little Unsaid – BBC6 Music regulars and winners of the Steve Reid Foundation Award for Boundary-Pushing New Music – return with an album of raw, restless and celebratory music all brought together while in the limbo of lockdown life, plus an energised live show offering an injection of hope for 2021.

The band is fronted by award-winning composer and songwriter John Elliott, who has had a hugely creative 12 months, starring in the new hit show Cruise on the West End, releasing a new studio album (‘Lick The Future’s Lips’) and writing and recording ‘December Songs’ entirely on his own in London during winter lockdown 2020, as well as scoring two upcoming feature films.

Acclaim for the band’s previous album Atomise saw their sound likened to artists as diverse as Nick Cave (Line of Best Fit), Radiohead, Joni Mitchell and Roy Harper (The Guardian).

The new album Lick The Future’s Lips was released on Reveal Records in July 2021 (Joan As Police Woman, Lau, Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader) after being recorded over one week when the band managed to get together for a limited time at a studio in London. The record marries John Elliott’s crafted, melodic songwriting with far less conventional elements, through necessity of isolation – from the found sounds of a forest mixed into pounding, beats-heavy electronica to an exultant, life-affirming call-to-arms composed in John Elliott’s tiny South London flat during the claustrophobia of lockdown.

All bound by Elliott’s sometimes intimate, often soaring vocals and visceral, deeply personal lyrics together with string arrangements that recall Warren Ellis’s most heart-rending themes.

The Little Unsaid’s loyal live audience has been boosted by repeated plays on BBC6 Music by the likes of Guy Garvey, Iggy Pop and Tom Robinson; known for shows which involve a rich emotional journey – in 2021 the band will focus on full-on performances and cathartic release, spotlighting straight-to-the-heart songwriting and the sampled elements of the album’s making and driven by excitement to get back on the road and share live music again.

THE LITTLE UNSAID Lick The Future’s Lips Album Tour Oct / Nov 2021

DATES:

FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER - The Live Room, SALTAIRE

SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER - West Kirby Arts Centre, WIRRAL

SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER - Greystones, SHEFFIELD

WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER - Water Rats, LONDON (Green Note Promotion)

THURSDAY 4 NOVEMBER - The Railway Inn, WINCHESTER

FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER - Bridport Arts Centre, DORSET

SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER - Dartington Hall, TOTNES

SUNDAY 7 NOVEMBER - Peggy's Skylight, NOTTINGHAM

MONDAY 8 NOVEMBER - Kitchen Garden Cafe, King's Heath, BIRMINGHAM

THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER - Pound Arts, CORSHAM