Cliffords are pleased to share new single, ‘Bittersweet,’ their first through newly formed label, Soil To The Sun.

The young Cork band self-financed and self-released a debut EP last year, but ‘Bittersweet’ marks their first steps working alongside a producer in Richie Kennedy at Battery Studios in London, aiming their sights far beyond the confines of their home city.

Fronted by Iona Lynch, Cliffords deal in a melody-rich, guitar-heavy merging of both shoegaze and grunge, all widescreen and cinematic in their scale and approach. Iona’s vocals, unrestrained and almost feral, arrowed above and beyond the sweatbox venues Cliffords are sure to be filling over the next twelve months. As an opening gambit to the world at large, ‘Bittersweet’ is a bold and ambitious statement of intent.

Vocalist Iona Lynch: “’Bittersweet’ is a more abstract look at nostalgia and our last few years of living in Cork. The first few lines of the song “the city begged look up” comes from something my grandad always said to me, “look up or you’ll miss half the beauty of the city.”

“’Bittersweet’ reflects the mixed emotions of us as a band finding our way in music and in ourselves as young adults. The lyrics poke fun at heartbreaks and how dramatic and potent those feelings felt at the time.”