Welly - Big In The Suburbs [CD]

Cat. no: VTX0100CD
Format: CD
Barcode: 8721056348343
Release Date: 21 Mar 2025
Genre: Indie

Welly announces his debut album

Big In The Suburbs,which will be released on March 21st

The record launches alongside the incredible new single and title track 'Big In The Suburbs', available now. Reporting for duty as the next great British band, Welly recently wrapped the 14-date Southern Leg ofThe National Service Tour,with Northern dates and a headline show at London's Moth Club set to follow on December 4th as their nationwide trek reachesThe Suburbsnear you...

The album centres on the monochrome mundanity but also the unsung beauty of the suburbs; a collection of picture- perfect, alt- pop vignettes, in which regular lives are often quietly on the brink of going berserk. For his debut album - all written and self produced by Welly himself - this rich tableaux of British life is celebrated for all its  tragedies and triumphs.Here are songs about wanting more than you have, a world in  fux, doomed romance, and fguring out how to be happy where everybody knows your  name (and your Mum's).

Welly has been building his creative province all year with a series of singles in the run-up toBig In The Suburbs.First single 'Shopping', for instance, pays tribute to the dying UK high street and today's grass- is- greener mentality, setting out the group's blueprint for Pop on a budget. 'Soak Up The Culture' meanwhile both sends up and adds to the canon of the lost, the Lads-On- Tour Anthem, with lawnmower- themed love-triangle 'Deere John' connecting a story arc with 'Cul-De-Sac' (and the stasis of two people at a romantic dead-end road). With inspiration ranging from the parochial storytelling of Blur or the intellectual electronica of Pet Shop Boys to kitchen- sink noughties bangers like Girls Aloud, Welly show early ambitions to reconnect the great, grassroots British tradition with the mainstream bands once beamed straight into your claustrophobic living room.

Radio
- National UK Radio from All Ears PR
- Regional UK Radio from Julie Barnes
- Previous spins at BBC 6Music from Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins, Huw Stephens, 
Emily Pilbeam, Alyx Holcomb & Nathan Shepherd
- Radio X Xposure Playlist and John Kennedy support
- BBC Radio Kent TOTW and spins
- BBC Solent spins

Press
- National UK Press from Toast PR
- Regional UK Press from Ian Cheek
- Breakthrough online support from the likes of NME (feature interview & track news), 
DORK (cover + Hype List 2025), DIY, Clash, Line of Best Fit, Mystic Sons and more.

CD Tracks: Big In The Suburbs / Home For The Weekend / Knock And Run / Deere John / Soak Up The Culture / Shopping / Cul- De- Sac / Pampas Grass / The Roundabout Racecourse / Under Milk Wood / Family Photos / Country Cousins / It's Not Like This In France / Life Is A Motorway