Turin Brakes

Turin Brakes is a British duo formed in 1999 in Balham, South London, by Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, childhood friends and multi-instrumentalists, whose music oscillates between acoustic folk, melodic pop and alternative rock, carried by delicate vocal harmonies and introspective songwriting. Revealed in the early 2000s with their debut album The Optimist LP (2001), hailed for its sincerity and sensitivity, they established themselves in the wake of the English folk revival, alongside artists such as Badly Drawn Boy and Elbow, while cultivating a personal style tinged with luminous melancholy and a certain melodic classicism. Their success is confirmed with Ether Song (2003), co-produced by Tony Hoffer, whose single "Pain Killer (Summer Rain)" is widely acclaimed, broadening their sound palette towards a fuller, more electric production. True to their poetic and often contemplative universe, they continue their journey with a series of albums with changing but always coherent climates, such as JackInABox (2005), Dark on Fire (2007), Outbursts (2010), We Were Here (2013) and Invisible Storm (2018). On the bangs of mainstream trends, Turin Brakes remain committed to an artisanal, organic vision of music, somewhere between dreamy folk and refined pop, and continue to perform live with remarkable fidelity to the intimacy that has characterized their work since their beginnings. The release of Wide-Eyed Nowhere in 2022 was followed three years later by their tenth album, Spacehopper.

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