Morning Bride – The North Sea Rising

The North Sea Rising is available as a limited edition CD

Morning Bride have returned to their native Hackney to release their much anticipated second album The North Sea Rising.

The album came out on Wednesday 20 March and is the band’s follow-up to The Lea Valley Delta Blues, their 2007 debut.

It sees them continue to mine a rich seam of influences such as the Velvet Underground and Karen Carpenter, creating a sound reminiscent of early Rilo Kiley – albeit with a distinctly British edge.

The disc has been a long time in the making – six years in fact. Most of that time they spent touring, writing and living a life that was, according to Morning Bride’s founder and guitarist Mark James Pearson, “kind of Fleetwood Mac, minus the income. Fleetwood Mackney.”

However, it seems the album’s lengthy gestation has allowed it to mature organically.

The album’s sound is not one easily defined by genre, with the vocals of lead singer Amity Joy Dunn supported by rich harmonies in a combination of songs that veer from bluegrass to lo-fi 60s psychedelia.

And in their lyrics and outlook there is no mistaking the ‘Hackney effect’.

As Mark explains: “Local culture played and plays a fundamental role in Morning Bride’s essence”.

It is perhaps for this reason that they chose to return to Hackney to launch the album.

Go to Morning Bride for ways to get hold of the album.