A desperate plea reshaped into defiance, Brain Leak’s Save Me signals the end of a first, bracing chapter authored by Manchester’s emergent, nu-riot grrrl supergroup’ centred around the complex introspections of songwriter, Tara-Gabriella Engelhardt. The single completes the band’s debut Put Back Together EP, a collection of bone-bearing songs written during a volatile stretch of early sobriety, described by the singer-songwriter as “completely dismantling, but also the first...

A self-initiated confessional, bringing radical honesty together with teardrop strains of piano, Manchester’s Brain Leak return with their latest single, Moon Eyes – OUT NOW. Gamely teasing out glassy melodies and emotional truths that evoke a distinct melancholic tenderness, replete with bittersweet, tentative longing, singer-songwriter, Tara Gabriella Engelhardt opens her own Pandora’s Box of reflection, realisation and growth with the help of bandmates drawn from Peaness, Orielles, Working Men’s Club...

Emotionally stripped and gamely accepting the stark risk of vulnerability, Manchester’s nu-riot grrrl newcomers, Brain Leak reveals the first harvest of deeply personal diary entry songwriting and recording sessions with the open-hearted release of Trying. Centred on the complex introspections of singer-songwriter, Tara-Gabriella Engelhardt, the band’s four-piece live make-up expands to become part of Peaness, Orielles and Working Men’s Club’s family tree.

A Cardiff-raised French/US national, making home in amidst...