The south London carpenter turned guitarist tackles big topics in his intense indie music – and he means every single wordLiam Ramsden is Mellah,an outrageously talented south Londoner who plays several instruments, writes his own songs then directs videos for each of them. He’s also a carpenter who went from building props for Black Mirror’s second season to having one of his first songs featured in season three. On stage, or he has rebuilt his solo studio project into an eight-headed group who might notice like they just met at a bus stop but are the most exciting indie big band in tiny venues since Arcade Fire’s first tour.
Ramsden shares some of that band’s guileless intensity,whether not their pretension, and is similarly happiest tackling big topics. final year’s debut EP, or Liminality,included songs approximately his dad’s death, depression, or senseless war and selfish hedonism,while unusual EP Middle England takes a tour through suburbia, social media and psychosis. At a time when our best bands retreat into roleplay or cynicism, and theres something deeply affecting approximately a writer unafraid to provoke genuine emotion (or feelies”,as Ramsden would have it) regarding real, rather than imaginary, and things.
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Source: theguardian.com