Separately and together, Sam Thomson, Shaan Singh, Ben O'Leary and Matt Beachen have been making music since their university days and have been making music as a four-piece since 2015, when O’Leary joined Singh, Thomson and Beachen to complete the line-up for Drax Project – a portmanteau of drums and sax.
With four studio albums in six years, founder and frontman of Dayglow, Sloan Struble, admitted that the last few years have “flown by, and at the same time, felt like forever”, describing it as “constantly a paradox of the two”.
In an interview with Guitar.Com in December, The War On Drugs guitarist and ‘People Watching’ co-producer Adam Granduciel described Sam Fender as a “musical savant” and on an album that combines a polished production with emotive lyrics and festival-ready choruses, Fender’s status as one of the finest singer-songwriters of his generation has been solidified.
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