Niall The Urchin is a West London duo who creates something very much of the locale, such as on his recently released single “Bleak Street.”
The track brings to life a fully reaalized uncompromising vision of the British landscape, with the raw instrumentation and punk vibes of Sleaford Mods and IDLES with a bit of an early Mike Skinner vocal delivery of sorts. One thing is for sure, it sounds like nothing else out there.
Find the track streaming below, along with some detail about the song directly from Niall The Urchin below:
Bleak St started as a poem and was written about a typical suburban high street. During lockdown I was forced to stay within the confines of my West London hometown and as such I couldn’t escape the sheer boredom and lack of opportunity that seems to pervade small provincial English towns. It’s that street where people hold Starbucks cups like they are a badge of honour sipping on sugary sweet concoctions mislabelled as coffee. Young kids dismantle tennis nets and deface local amenities while boy racers seem to be eternal Peter Pan’s riding around in Ford escorts. Their world revolves around the invisible walls that keeps them chained to innocuous concerns and baseless gossip. It’s an incestuous pit where dreams are stifled and creativity has strict limits and conventions. The weather is a hot topic and the pubs are fiercely territorial. This is Bleak St
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