"Awkward Pop" pioneer Belot releases the cheeky new single "Get This"
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PRAISE FOR BELOT:
“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 following up the release of last year’s much-loved EP ‘Harmless Fun’ with her glittering comeback single “Cool Whip” in March, which found radio support from BBC Radio 1's Clara Amfo and Jack Saunders, added to the Student Music Network playlist, as well as DSP support from Spotify NMF UK, Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds Pop, Peach and more, “awkward pop” pioneer Belot is back once again with her cheeky new offering “Get This”.
Adding a bold and bouncing electronic base to her latest outing, ‘Get This’ sees her continue her pursuit of rich and immersive pop textures once again. Co-written alongside Dirty Hit up-and-comer Oscar Lang, the pair looks to add a vibrant and explosive element to Belot’s already infectious sound here.
Adding about the new track, she said, "'Get This; is about when you’ve had your heart broken and just as you’re starting to function normally again, the person who broke said heart starts to resurface. However it’s too late and you’ve in fact come so far in the stages of grief, you want them to sit on a cactus.
“I wrote this song with one of my best friends at his house. We made a trashy demo to start but as I listened to it rather than drunk on the way home, I knew we were onto something. I’d hope it’s not a feeling everyone has had, but I know that most of us at some point have wanted an ex to sit on a cactus."
As well as releasing her highly-acclaimed EP ‘Harmless Fun’ in 2022, she also saw out the 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 has also announced a pair of live shows in June this year. Both live dates can be found below.
Belot UK Live Dates
3rd June - The Courtyard Theatre, London (Supporting ARXX)
4th June - Mighty Hoopla Festival, London
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 warblings 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 dubstep 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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