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Penny Betts

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it all together, changing it from a straight indierock Rock and roll has returned, the genre and the
type track to something more authentic. The big original flair of the 60s and 70s is alive and well. With
fuzzy guitar riff at the end was taken from another a touch of originality and a willingness to storm
unfinished song idea of ours”. through language barriers – thanks to Matt Felix’
French native tongue – Penny Betts are well on their
Recorded entirely on tape with producer Brett Shaw way to carving out a path of their own. Passion and
(Foals, Florence and the Machine, Clean Bandit), musical precision meet under the blanket of
“Lights!” illustrates the band’s desire to emit raw, dry sweeping guitars and experimental waves of audio
sounds. The band share, “We always had this sound warmth. Penny Betts aim to get you dancing,
in our heads that we could never really make a real- connecting, and embracing the live music scene
ity, but Brett knew exactly what we wanted and even as the rightful escapism it was always meant to be.
exceeded our expectations. Recording onto tape is A band well worth looking out for over the coming
something really beautiful, and we’ll do it whenever months and years.
we can”. Oozing with effortless vocals, dazed
melodies and a lethargic rhythm section, Penny Betts https://www.instagram.com/pennybettstheband/
craft adreamy, hypnotic track. https://www.facebook.com/pennybettstheband/
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