Welly announce debut album, Big In The Suburbs

“‘Big in the Suburbs’ is Suburban surf-rock. (Feeding-the-ducks-indie?)” Welly proclaims. “This is the market stall for the album, the contents page, the intro sequence, the theme song. Think the intro to ‘Thomas The Tank Engine’, we meet our motley crew in each verse - the neighbours, the foul families, the love interests, the ugly pets.

“I wrote this in hospital after a seizure. The doctors don’t really know why. But in between tests, in the waiting room of East Sussex General A and E, this chorus floated out. Maybe some divine intervention. Maybe too much white wine. Live, Laugh, Love, Death'.”

The album centres on the monochrome mundanity but also the unsung beauty of the suburbs; a collection of vignettes, in which regular lives are often quietly on the brink of going berserk. For his debut album – all written and self-produced by Welly himself – this rich tableaux of British life is celebrated for all its tragedies and triumphs. Here are songs about wanting more than you have, a world in flux, doomed romance, and figuring out how to be happy where everybody knows your name (and your Mum’s).