Lex Vervain Releases Single ‘Digital Sink’

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12 Nov

More from the same imagination that brought you that hyperpopster LXP and ‘Power Ballads Vol. 1’, here’s Lex Vervain, new-town troubadour. A South London based singer-songwriter/guitarist/keys-player, who’s been spinning around the big city’s indie circus in various bands, Lex Vervain’s sound nods towards the Elliott Smith/Bedouine/Alex G alt camp. It’s the music of sharp words and serious tunes, songs that come from a small world caught up in the metropolis. Loves and fallouts, anger and shame, coffee cups and busted records, stories delivered in a voice that’s Townes tender and troubled.

Over the last few months Lex Vervain has been working with producer Joseph Futak (Tapir, Baggio, Luce Rushton, Lilo Band….) shaping a set of tracks to be shared. The first single ‘Favourite Song’, released mid-October, was a steamy lo-fi love song, which got coverage and dented those Spotify playlists (Post-Brexit Pop/Philm Presents).

“It is really beautiful stuff, ebbing and flowing and slow dancing around the brain” (Backseat Mafia).

Now comes his second release ‘Digital Sink’, a jangling, punchy break-up song for the screen age. Chords chime, phrases snap and hook-lines bite in a two-minute tear at your heart-strings. So expect more of those Lex Vervain ear-pricking vocals and crisp acoustic fretwork which follow a John Martyn/Fionn Reagan pathway.

‘Digital Sink’ will see daylight on 8th November via the usual streaming portals and baggable from Bandcamp.

More music and live shows to follow soon from Lex Vervain – it’s just one beginning …