Mesadorm

Mesadorm make bone-melting, intravenous Cup-a-Soup music: intimacy-first, depth- channelling beats, shining synth-led harmonies, and a bright, idiosyncratic collage of dead-good sound. Not for the faint of constitution. For divers, not paddlers. The band is a long-standing collaboration between five lifelong friends: Blythe Pepino, Aaron Zahl, Daisy Palmer, Jo Silverston, and David Johnston. Having known each other since their teens, weathering phases of romance, friendship, loss, growth and multiplemusical incarnations, Mesadorm’s connection runs deep, translating into a mesmeric,emotional and transportative live presence with an unusual sense of trust and assuredness. Mesadorm first emerged with their 2018 debut Heterogaster, a record that took relationshiptruths, epiphanies around family, sexuality, and pain, and blended them with equal parts Björk, Kate Bush, Caribou and experimental pop instinct. The album received widespread critical acclaim and quickly positioned the band as a singular new voice in British alternative music. Its acoustic counterpart, Epicadus (2019), offered a stripped-back, whisper-close retelling, no less powerful, no less devastating. Their sound resists easy categorisation, existing somewhere between art-rock and dream-pop. Pepino’s lyrics often feel like domestic observations filtered through emotional surrealism, while vocal harmonies reach toward elemental other-worldliness.