Welcome Strangers: Vinyl LP The Bled lonely months of lockdown in

lonely months of lockdown in 2020

From the darkly moody “Black Widow” to the eerily beautiful “Aberfan” the skillfully constructed 16-track score evokes the turbulence of both the times and inner lives of the Windsor family

being included in flagship playlists and programmes by multiple streaming services and being placed on countless ‘best of’ & ‘one to watch’ lists

Begging You

realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions

Welcome Strangers: Vinyl LP The Bled lonely months of lockdown inWelcome Strangers is the second record by feral pop outliers Modern Studies. Elegiac and haunted, life giving and triumphant, this beguiling return digs deep into landscapes both real and imagined, internal and external, in a work that might perhaps best be described as kosmiche choral or, if were pushing it arts und crafts werk. Or, put simply, glorious pop music. It is an elemental and often spectral world of contrasting tones and hues that is found