Introducing post hardcore outfit SOBRIQUET with their brand new single release ‘Eros’ that premiered on BBC Introducing in Sheffield last weekend. The music video for the single is out now and you can check it out here below..
SOBRIQUET are very energetic and what gives them their charm and originality is how unusual they are. They pride themselves on their modernity but take influence from bands such as Mars Volta and Refused.
Check out sing Eros below!
We caught up with the band as they talked about their latest single and more!
How has the release of your single Eros gone down so far?
Slow but steady. We didn’t have a single release show like we did for Birds of Prey, so the song has pretty much had to hold up on its own merits, but so far we’ve heard nothing but good things about it. Audiences seem to really gel with the chorus as well, which is awesome – it’s always nice to hear your songs being sung back to you.
What’s it like to be working with the likes of BBC Introducing Sheffield?
As Bill and Ted once said: “Excellent!” Christian Carlisle has been amazingly helpful over these last few years, giving us plenty of airtime and inviting us in for a live session earlier this year. We were even lucky enough to make it onto their top 50 tracks last year with No Tunnel // No Light.
Will you be releasing an album or EP any time soon?
We’ve just wrapped up recording a few new songs at Steel City Studio. Whether they get released as an E.P or as singles remains to be seen, as they’re all quite different. We’ve got a huge metal tune with a 13/8 section, a song about fighting your doppelganger on a river (ask Ludo about that one), and a straight-to-the-point rocker with a riff bouncier than a trampoline. However they drop, we hope to have at least some of them out into the world by the end of the year.
If you could work with any band on a new song, who would it be and why?
Rolo Tomassi. They’re one of our biggest inspirations, and we like just about every single thing about them; their song-writing, production, creativity, live energy, the lot. Listen to Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It and tell me you wouldn’t want to work with them.
Will you be touring at all this year?
We’re planning on doing a small tour at the end of November, and we’re always doing one-off shows in and around Sheffield. Our next show is with Gender Roles on the 8th of October in Sheffield, but don’t be surprised if you see us on a bill sooner than that. If you want to know when and where we’re playing, you can *ahem* follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Instagram, and a new-fangled video broadcasting system called YouTube.
What’s the music scene like in Sheffield at the moment?
Unsurprisingly, the Arctic Monkeys’ hometown is dominated by indie rock. Despite this, there is a solid local metal scene. Though that scene is mostly populated by slam and deathcore, a little digging will uncover a surprisingly wide array of bands and genres. We’ve got blackened post-metal behemoths Ba’al, recent M2M winners Deformation of Man, and the always brilliant Havelocke to name just a few. Though Sheffield misses out on a few of the giant touring bands, a lot of the best up-and-coming bands such as Black Peaks and Frontierer often grace us with their presence.
So as you may know Bring Me The Horizon is from Sheffield, would the dream is to be big as them?
Who wouldn’t want to be as big as BMTH?! That said, as much as we’d all enjoy playing sold-out stadiums, it’s not exactly our be-all end-all. We’d certainly like to get to the point where we can play at festivals like ArcTanGent, but mostly we just want to be in a position where we’re not held back from making music by situational factors, I say, looking at my rapidly diminishing overdraft.