Noisey: You've recently returned to performing. The record feels at once more expansive and more stripped down from London Grammar's past work, confident in its vulnerability as the group tackles everything from torn relationships to global warming. The album packs plenty more of Reid's arresting vocals and the mercurial dynamics of its predecessor, though this time pushed to moments that verge on apocalyptic. The result is their sophomore LP, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, out June 9 via Metal & Dust/Columbia. As with the release of their debut, they've been in little rush to churn out new music, focusing instead on taking inventory of their experiences to make the album they want rather than need. In the time since the band met as students at the University of Nottingham in 2010, its members-now approaching their late 20s-have grown up, with much of that time spent on the road. "You can't actually get that without doing shows. "You just develop a tour tightness which is kind of-it doesn't matter how much you rehearse," explains Major, who helms drums and keyboard alongside Rothman's guitar.
Or maybe even "nervous,"-after all, it's been four years since the group's acclaimed debut If You Wait. "Tender," if the reaction of the latter's doting 200-person crowd was any indication. Or maybe "intimate," a word often ascribed to the kind of moody, R&B-inflected pop the group deals in, but one they've made something of a specialty.
"A tad rusty," she decides, smiling as she eyes bandmates Dan Rothman and Dominic "Dot" Major, who chuckle in agreement.įor those who caught the Corden set, or who were at the band's cozy gig the night before, "rusty" isn't exactly the word that comes to mind. "We were a little rusty, maybe," vocalist Hannah Reid says of the performances over breakfast at their hotel.
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