Bio provided by artist:
For Breakfast’s evolution has been a patient blooming.
Their debut EP Songs in the Key of O was released into the midst of the 2020 lockdown, but it nonetheless drew praise from Clash, Loud and Quiet and The Quietus for its tumultuous, multifaceted sound – a tapestry of psychedelia, noise rock, jazz and dream pop bursting its stitches.
With the addition of a sax, the now-seven piece released their second EP Trapped in the Big Room in 2022. Recorded at an abandoned Cold War air base in Suffolk, the band leaned further into experimentation, allowing the eerie space to instil the style established on the first EP with a heightened sense of mystery and urgency. Its lead track ‘Heavy Horse Museum’ was in The Quietus’ top 50 tracks of 2022 and the EP received plaudits from Clash and So Young.
The band’s democratic songwriting process has always shaped their music, and they began crafting what would become their debut album in this same manner, focussing on refining their sound into something cohesive and organic. With the lineup of Maya Harrison (vocals and synth), Gail Tasker (flute), Eden Harrison (saxophone), Omar Zaghouani (guitar and synth), Joe Thompson (guitar), Sam Birkett (bass) and Eddie Jones-West (drums), For Breakfast’s debut album began to manifest.
Over the course of writing this material For Breakfast had been steadily honing their live sets, building a reputation for mesmerising and urgent performance across stages such as Portals Festival, Sounds From the Other City, Supersonic Block Party and a tour with LA psych rock titans Wand, and wanted to get as close to the feeling of those rooms as possible on record.
The album was recorded in January 2025 with producer Gus White at his studio in rural Wiltshire, the weather and surroundings thoroughly permeating the live recording. These songs were then decorated with orchestral parts arranged by Tasker and Zaghouani, and performed by friends and family members. The final recordings were transferred onto tape by White, complementing the energy and texture of the live sound.
What results is a band transformed, not in a rapid revelation but a slow unfurling, with folkloric vocals, wistful and haunted instrumentation, and a deep sense of place and presence in the recording. One can hear post-rock, folk, psych rock, prog, dream pop – even shards of post-hardcore. Echoes of Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Pentangle, Bardo Pond, PJ Harvey, Portishead and Unwound abound – but the sound is unmistakably For Breakfast.
The fast is broken – dig in.
Bio provided by artist:
For Breakfast’s evolution has been a patient blooming.
Their debut EP Songs in the Key of O was released into the midst of the 2020 lockdown, but it nonetheless drew praise from Clash, Loud and Quiet and The Quietus for its tumultuous, multifaceted sound - a tapestry of psychedelia, noise rock, jazz and dream pop bursting its stitches.
With the addition of a sax, the now-seven piece released their second EP Trapped in the Big Room in 2022. Recorded at an abandoned Cold War air base in Suffolk, the band leaned further into experimentation, allowing the eerie space to instil the style established on the first EP with a heightened sense of mystery and urgency. Its lead track ‘Heavy Horse Museum’ was in The Quietus’ top 50 tracks of 2022 and the EP received plaudits from Clash and So Young.
The band’s democratic songwriting process has always shaped their music, and they began crafting what would become their debut album in this same manner, focussing on refining their sound into something cohesive and organic. With the lineup of Maya Harrison (vocals and synth), Gail Tasker (flute), Eden Harrison (saxophone), Omar Zaghouani (guitar and synth), Joe Thompson (guitar), Sam Birkett (bass) and Eddie Jones-West (drums), For Breakfast’s debut album began to manifest.
Over the course of writing this material For Breakfast had been steadily honing their live sets, building a reputation for mesmerising and urgent performance across stages such as Portals Festival, Sounds From the Other City, Supersonic Block Party and a tour with LA psych rock titans Wand, and wanted to get as close to the feeling of those rooms as possible on record.
The album was recorded in January 2025 with producer Gus White at his studio in rural Wiltshire, the weather and surroundings thoroughly permeating the live recording. These songs were then decorated with orchestral parts arranged by Tasker and Zaghouani, and performed by friends and family members. The final recordings were transferred onto tape by White, complementing the energy and texture of the live sound.
What results is a band transformed, not in a rapid revelation but a slow unfurling, with folkloric vocals, wistful and haunted instrumentation, and a deep sense of place and presence in the recording. One can hear post-rock, folk, psych rock, prog, dream pop - even shards of post-hardcore. Echoes of Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Pentangle, Bardo Pond, PJ Harvey, Portishead and Unwound abound - but the sound is unmistakably For Breakfast.
The fast is broken - dig in.