@neverthebridle.bsky.social
Guitars, bass, vocals, keys + household objects.
"Great shit" - Bandcamp listener
Artist name refers to the scold's bridle, an archaic instrument of punishment primarily used on women.
🎧 https://linktr.ee/neverthebridle
📖 https://tinyurl.com/5n7frwf6
@neverthebridle.bsky.social PinnedLil extra release for you today and a debut for my lap harp!
About being a little girl and then being a big one. Thwarted potential! Wrecked confidence! The quest for smallness in all forms, and at all costs, until you hit a wall of understanding.
🎧 on Bandcamp if you please:
tinyurl.com/3vsszcr2
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialWell that was very nice to hear, all hail Laura Beth!
If you'd like to hear the track she's talking about, here it is on Bandcamp (but also available everywhere else):
@neverthebridle.bsky.social...You just know that this is a cool band. And the way the track kicks in, it just drags you in from the very start, doesn't it?"
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialAudio from Laura Beth: "That is a big tune. It's got little hints of kind of noughties' pop punk, it's got that seventies' rock and roll sound to it. I love the vocals, because there's attitude but there's like a nonchalance...a coolness about it that I don't think anyone can replicate...
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialAlt text dropped out again: screen recorded clip with audio showing the radio show home screen on Mixcloud. The title is: Reclaimed Radio- Laura Beth's Mixtape Show- #317- 09 September 2026, headed up by a photo of radio DJ Laura Beth.
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialCatching up on Laura Beth's excellent Mixtape Show on Reclaimed Radio, where she had these very nice things to say about 'He's got other problems' - audio clip attached!
🎧 Full show up on Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/ReclaimedRad...
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialThat is cool!!
@shopfiresmusic.bsky.socialReposted by @neverthebridle.bsky.socialThe new SHOPFIRES single Underachievers on @yyzrecords.bsky.social is getting lots of plays and has received a number of wonderful reviews. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to listen and share.
Still a few copies of the limited edition 7" available.
@seaofdays.bsky.socialReposted by @neverthebridle.bsky.socialHappy 6 month anniversary to the last Sea Of Days album ‘Traces’. I have made the download pay what you want this weekend so feel free to help yourself. Any shares/reviews/kind words are always welcome for any independent artist 😌
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialAdvance thanks to David who is playing 'He's got other problems' on his #BeyondTheBridge show this evening 7 to 9pm on Raw Radio 📻
🎧 rawradiolive.com
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialHaha, no pressure!
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialReposted by @neverthebridle.bsky.socialStill wanging on about Loss Lines, track by track? Yes I am. Track 8 is 'Leave me', and a prickly, sad thing it is, too.
It's about experiencing a (temporary) intolerance of company, cheerfulness and attempted distraction in a time of loss ('don't laugh, don't smile').
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialHappy finale to you! Will queue it up to listen when my ears unblock.
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialNothing more rewarding than someone recommending you listen all the way through! Big thanks to @smokincola.bsky.social 🤩
@untidymusic.comReposted by @neverthebridle.bsky.social@neverthebridle.bsky.socialAnyway, it's quite different to the rest of the record, and I like how it came out 💕
I'm on vocals, guitars and bass, and filling in the other instruments on the MIDI keyboard.
Extra percussion, editing/mix/mastering is by @mountainsize.bsky.social (pictured)
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialSome percussion is programmed, the rest is James working his new (back then) congas! I added a short section of electronic drums where the song comes to a swell over these lyrics: 'I don't know if I'm awake or asleep Swimming in this soup of disbelief Better to leave the grievers to their grief'
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialThe guitar takes more of a back seat here than usual to make way for some synth piano and percussion, and to let the plaintive main vocal line lead. I grounded it from verse 2 with a very simple bass parts.
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialI start and finish the track with some synth marimba - love how James @mountainsize.bsky.social gave it an echoey tailing off at the end.
Can't remember the effect I have on that main guitar part, but I was going for a distorted, wobbly, unreal feeling.
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialThere are references to how unreal things feel in this sort of moment. That constant bad dream feeling where you wake up and remember again what has happened. It sucks, as you may already know!
@neverthebridle.bsky.socialAs a private, introverted person (who contradicts this by putting very personal songs on the internet!), I stand by the feelings in it. Sometimes you need to let a person work through their grief, innit. I was also thinking about how opaque medical language can be ('none of the words make sense').
