Bleak Soul (ex-As It Is) signs to Beth Shalom Records and release brand new single

Leading up to their debut UK tour, Bleak Soul have announced their signing to Beth Shalom Records with their brand new single, Forever Ago, Featuring additional vocals from bassist/vocalist of Delaire The Liar, Em Lodge out on 3rd November. With the single due just 2 days before his co-headline tour with Tigress the ex-As It Is guitarist, Benjamin Langford-Biss draws influence from the likes of Placebo, Elliot Smith and Beck to offer listeners a new side to the expansive project.

Starting life as a studio project in 2019 after Langford-Biss stepped back from As It Is after 8 years of intensive global touring to focus on other creative outputs. Surprise releasing his debut solo album Existential Meditation in 2020 which saw Bleak Soul exploring concepts of purpose & mental struggles with the entire point of existence through vast sonic explorations from ambient soundscapes, to guitar-heavy rock songs, acoustic ballads, jazz & 80's new wave. Between lockdowns in 2021 there was opportunity to put together a live band for the project as well as releasing the double a-side single Living / Nihilism through his very own Bleak Records.

Discussing the brand new single, Langford-Biss states, "I knew the moment I wrote Forever Ago that it needed to be a duet, there was only one person I was ever going to ask and that was Em as our voices work so well together and I’m a huge Delaire [the Liar] fan. This song really encapsulates the rawness and vulnerability of the record - it is a song about change, hindsight and dealing with the loss of things you spent your entire adult life building. The musical shift is my sonic representation of my fear of change and how I feel when I am going through it. My life now is so different that it almost feels like I am a completely different person and this song helped me deal with that feeling. I can’t wait to perform this with Em every night on tour - live we’re just going to jam out the end for as long as we get away with!"

LIVE SHOWS

• 5/11 - Glasgow, Classic Grand*
• 6/11 - Newcastle, Cobalt Studios*
• 7/11 - Birmingham, The Sunflower Lounge*
• 8/11 - Manchester, The Star & Garter*
• 9/11 - Liverpool, Jimmy's*
• 10/11 - Bristol, The Exchange (basement)*
• 11/11 - Brighton, Brighton Electric*
• 12/11 - Leeds, Key Club*
• 13/11 - London, Engine Rooms*
• 04/12 - Norwich, Voodoo Daddy's ShowroomTM
• 15/01/22 - Brighton, The Hope & Ruin

*co-headline w/ Tigress

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