Stealing Sheep

Stealing Sheep release their eagerly awaited second LP Not Real on Heavenly Recordings in April. Not Real comes with the same sense of playfulness and imagination as Into The Diamond Sun, their debut from 2012, but, harmony vocals aside, the formula has not been repeated.

Rob St. John saw them play recently and this is what he said in his review: "The stage set-up for the three-piece – cowbells, chimes, lapsteel, bells, an array of keyboards – looks a bit like the 'miscellaneous' section from an instrument shop, but the slightly ramshackle edge to the band's live shows of a year or two ago has been replaced by something tighter, heavier, more together, more exciting. They're nothing short of fantastic: trading smiles as their peals of highlife guitar, 808-precise runs of cowbell and toms and the subterranean synth lines evoke Julia Holter by way of 'Stop Making Sense' era Talking Heads, and the exuberant dub-post-punk of Explode Into Colours.”