Kyte + Pocket Satellite + Tudors + All The Damn Kids

/// KYTE
Leicestershire four-piece Kyte will release their debut full-length album, Dead Waves, on 19 April through KIDS Records; the label that launched The Wombats, The Whip and Band of Horses. Dead Waves follows Kyte’s self-titled mini-album and highly acclaimed EP, Two Stars, Two Sparks (released December 2008). The album will be preceded by the release of a single, ihnfsa, on 12 April.

NME went on to predict that “Kyte will steal your heart”, and they’ve returned to do just that.

On Dead Waves, Kyte’s ever-atmospheric, dreamy soundscapes come coupled with big pop sensibilities. First single ‘ihnfsa’ is symphonic, lush and melancholic; an exemplum of the band’s newfound focus. ‘Smoke Saves Lives’, meanwhile, is an enormous-sounding explosion of big choruses, driven by a simple yet hypnotic piano line. Kyte’s debut works precisely because of this contrast with the album’s more far-reaching musical efforts: the epic ‘Each Life Critical’, for instance, sounds like Sigur Rós soundtracking Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Such huge sounds need the lyrical content to match, on which Nick Moon duly delivers (“painful nerves are turning, sleepless, searching, back in time, hallucinate the love”).

Though Dead Waves is their first proper long-player, Kyte have made impressively large strides for a new act. They built up a strong following in both the indie and dance press, thanks in part to supporting slots with the likes of The Whip, School of Seven Bells, iLiKETRAiNS and Iceland’s Ólafur Arnalds. In the US, their track ‘Boundaries’ was used on a nationally-aired advert for HBO’s The Sopranos.

The band can also boast of quite remarkable success in Japan, following the release of their Japan-only album Science For The Living. This saw them chart at number 5, and debut one place higher than U2. 2010 will see this particular Kyte fly even higher.

“Kyte will steal your heart soon as look as you” - NME

“They’re the stuff of dream-pop dreams, blessed with a compellingly insular intensity…they’re looking thoroughly poised to soar.” — The Fly

“Kyte positively gleam” Rock Sound

/// POCKET SATELLITE
Pocket Satellite was born after a chance meeting at an open mic night, over a hot chocolate, on a quiet Thursday evening in Sheffield. With 5 members from 4 cities, playing 15 instruments, they recently revealed a fresh line-up and their brand new Toy Train EP, inspired by their discovery of an antique glockenspiel.

They have had the opportunity to play for Drowned in Sound at The Harley, and recently supported Jenny Owen Youngs at The Monto Water Rats in London. They have also been introduced by Tom Robinson on 6 Music and performed a live session with Iain Hodgson on BBC Radio Sheffield's Raw Talent show.

They are currently proudly playing their new songs at venues up and down the country, with lots more gigs on the horizon.

“The whole EP is a lovely mix of folky indiepop, gently reminiscent of Monkey Swallows the Universe and Slow Club at their most winsome” - Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation

“These are happy mood songs, songs to make your heart dance with joy” – Derbyshire Times