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flakebelly is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and singer, exploring whatever musical styles suit him on any given day. Influenced by a lifetime listening to Syd Barrett, Miles Davis, The Smiths, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Cure, Led Zeppelin, Bert Jansch, Elliott Smith, Robert Johnson, Joy Division, Daniel Johnston, The Clash and many, many more. Finding guidence in the literary world as much as the musical with authors and poets such as Jack Kerouac, Rimbaud, E.E Cummings, Thomas Wolfe, Dostoevsky, Philip K Dick and on.
Always seeking new sounds and inspiration, his music carries a distinct flavour with jazzy pianos, soaring high-end vocals and sizzling blues guitar riffs framing his introspective, poetic lyrics. His songs are sometimes acoustic - drawing from the well of traditional finger-picked styles of the British Isles, and sometimes electric - allowing funky drumming, chugging bass guitar and his more indie-rock and psychedelic affectations to shine.
flakebelly began his musical odyssey as a small boy in 1980's England, miming to The Beatles and 50's Rock 'n' Roll mix cassettes with a tennis racket, watching himself in the reflection of his parent's microwave. Picking up a guitar with intent aged 15, he is yet to put it down. After learning some chops in a typically psychedelic student-rock band, he set out alone as the genre-bending, style-defying musical migrant he is today.
After recently moving to a distant Scottish island, flakebelly constructed a small home studio and is currently learning to self-record, mix and master his ever-more diverse catalogue of songs.
Releasing a lo-fi, home-recorded debut album, 'Rotten!' in 2020, flakebelly is currently focused on singles, believing they offer more opportunity for his perpetually evolving sound.