"Awkward Pop" pioneer Belot releases her new EP 'The Good Life' + brand new single, "Ain't It A Shame"
LISTEN TO ‘THE GOOD LIFE’ EP HERE
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“Soaked in this really vibrant colour, the production gives it an exciting edge ... almost like a reimagined digital funk to it, really charming this thing" BBC Radio 1, Jack Saunders
"the perfect blend of quirk and kink" THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“a frisky document of an effervescent personality making an impact on UK music.” CLASH
"Meet the BRIT School graduate who is building her own brand of awkward pop." WONDERLAND
"Belot fever is real." EARMILK
“With one foot in the commercial arena and the other skirting the peripherals of popular taste, she has delivered a brilliantly dynamic collection that highlights her wonderfully fresh and absorbing direction throughout.” WHEN THE HORN BLOWS
“Her brash, upfront lyricism about the everyday existence of humans has earned her acclaim within the music world and sees her garnering fans across the globe.” LOCK MAG
“The North London songwriter’s latest collection of “awkward pop” music is a catchy and melodic diary of her early 20s” SONGWRITING MAGAZINE
"With a Dora Jar support in the bag, London’s ‘awkward pop’ pioneer Belot has returned with this super-fun banger. In a very crowded field, Belot is pushing herself further and further in her own direction and it’s paying off here." M MAG (PRS FOR MUSIC)
After turning out a wave of highly-praised singles including “Get This”, “V.I.P”, “The Good Life” and “Cool Whip” throughout this year, which have since found radio support from BBC Radio 1's Clara Amfo and Jack Saunders, and received DSP support from Spotify NMF UK, Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds Pop, Peach and more, “awkward pop” pioneer Belot has now released her eagerly-awaited new EP ‘The Good Life’, alongside new single “Ain’t It A Shame”.
As one of the more progressive pop innovators on the scene, Belot’s newest EP ‘The Good Life’ looks to add yet another vibrant quiver to her already impressive musical bow. Led by the new outing “Ain’t It A Shame”, the collection’s final cut stands as a bright and glossy bop, brimming with all the same expressive aesthetics we love her for.
Adding about “Ain’t It A Shame”, she said, "Ain’t it a shame was a song I always sort of wanted to write. I was in the studio with writer/ producer Stephen Barnes. We had been particularly excited for the session, as we had known each other for years but never quite gotten in a room together.
“The song, as you have probably guessed from my lack of private plane, is purely conceptual. The song is about when people who had previously doubted your abilities, and or overlooked you, can come out of the woodwork later on, when they’ve realised they’ve missed the boat, or in this sassy song’s case, the yacht.
“Over the years, I’d made a lot of friends in the music industry, fellow artists, writers and producers. I always think about how lucky I am to be put in a room with people who all have the same obsession. It’s like summer camp on steroids.
“Anyways it appeared to me that everyone, all at varying stages of their careers, had someone that had let them down, or snubbed them in some regard. Someone who in principle would never get a cut of them or their art. It’s a tale as old as time, and I wanted to write about it.”
‘The Good Life’ Tracklist:
Cool Whip
The Good Life
Ain’t It A Shame
Get This
V.I.P
Belot also recently took to the stage as the official support act for The Aces on their UK and European tour including dates in London, Dublin, Manchester and Paris.
As well as releasing her highly-acclaimed EP ‘Harmless Fun’ in 2022, she also saw out last year with a flurry of live performances, including a sold out headline show at London’s Paper Dress Vintage, support slots with Michael Aldag, Caity Baser, Dora Jar, Cate Canning, Ellie Dixon and Pip Millett, as well as festival highlight at Latitude.
Belot is a pop fanatic. She adores pop – she lives it, breathes it, and devours it whole. Well, she’d have to. Her own songwriting – deliciously infectious, hilariously engaging – is pop in its purest, most ruthlessly enjoyable sense. It’s crafted by a student of the genre, someone who wakes up in the morning with a song in her head, and won’t rest until it’s down on tape before breakfast. It’s what allowed her debut EP to become such a surprise success – and it’s what is driving her to undreamt of heights.
Brought up in North London, living with her Mum and older brother, she was surrounded by music from a young age with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys and Al Green being regularly played in the house. She’s always naturally gravitated to music, and would write songs in the bath as early as she can remember.
By the age of 8, she was teaching herself guitar in a quest to put her bath time warbling into some sort of construct. Aged 12 Belot had progressed to a laptop and recording, using Logic. Music was clearly the place she felt she could best express her emotions.
She fluked her way into the Brit School at the age of 14 and throughout her time there she started to formulate her own vision of the sort of music she wanted to make and how she wanted to be perceived as an artist.
Her musical journey continued – soaking up music of The Strokes, Phoenix, Andy Shauf, Flume, Alt J, Metronomy, and the aggressive dub step of Kill The Noise.
“I love pop. Always have! And I’m not afraid to say it,” she exclaims. “I think for me, a pop song is something that is going to be so catchy it hurts. I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night and it’ll still be stuck in my head.”
From hereon in, at the quietest moments of the day and night, Belot is set to be your companion, shaking up your life and providing something unique, and truly addictive.
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