Exclusive track premiere of ‘Denver 2018’ by Bleak Soul, taken from the new album, ‘Shouting with Nothing to Say’ out March 11th 2022.

Bleak Soul is Benjamin Langford-Biss’s latest project (formally of As It Is). After embarking on their debut UK tour alongside Tigress, Shouting with Nothing to Say very quickly became a live favourite, even in the eyes of Will Gould of Creeper.

Discussing the new album, Langford-Biss said, “‘Shouting With Nothing’ to say is the record I’ve always wanted to make but always been too afraid to. It’s raw, often quiet, sometimes loud and brutally honest and allows all my flaws and imperfections to show. I wanted this record to be more of a soundtrack, with vignettes of specific moments in my life forming a larger picture. The record fundamentally is about change; within the space of a couple of months everything I’d spent the best part of a decade working on was gone and making this record helped me deal with that. There is a comfort in the mundane, in the the simple things that make us human and this is me trying to find it. The internet has meant the world has become a place where people try to shout the loudest, a lot of the time with no real depth and this record is an escape from that. It is a self-aware reflection on my own need to tell a story in order to feel like I have purpose”.

Starting life as a studio project in 2019 after Langford-Biss stepped back from As It Is after 8 years of intensive global touring to focus on other creative outputs. Surprise releasing his debut solo album ‘Existential Meditation’ in 2020 which saw Bleak Soul exploring concepts of purpose & mental struggles with the entire point of existence through vast sonic explorations from ambient soundscapes, to guitar-heavy rock songs, acoustic ballads, jazz & 80’s new wave. Between lockdowns in 2021 there was opportunity to put together a live band for the project as well as releasing the double a-side single ‘Living’ / ‘Nihilism’ through his very own Bleak Records.

Live Shows
15th March 2022 – Tunbridge Wells, Forum Basement
16th March 2022 – Brighton, The Prince Albert
17th March 2022 – Cardiff, The Moon
18th March 2022 – London, Signature Brew Haggerston
19th March 2022 – Birmingham, The Flapper
20th March 2022 – Leicester, Firebug
7th July 2022 – 2000 Trees Festival, Cheltenham

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