Produced by Ben Hampson (Lambrini Girls, Ditz), The 4-track EP serves up a bona fide indie-opera of booming orchestrations and architected storytelling. To be accompanied by a short film and frontman Billy Marsh’s full length debut novel of the same name. The EP explores the power of relationships in helping to understand the human experiences within the confusions of modernity, and how to cope once these relationships are lost.

Defined by their high-stakes rock ensemble of woodwind, strings and brass – and drawing inspirations from sources as varied as Nick Cave, Classic FM, and John Williams cult 60s novel Stoner, Ideal Living are evidently not one to shy away from ambitious concepts. Following radio/press support from BBC Radio 6Music (Huw Stephens, New Music Fix), Radio X (John Kennedy), So Young, DIY, Far Out and Backseat Mafia, as well as live dates with The Murder Capital, Egyptian Blue, Opus Kink and The New Eves, heralding the EP’s release is the Dexys-esque blue-eyed soul manoeuvres of new single ‘March’.

Offering more on the EP as a whole, Billy explains: I view Ideal Living as a big orchestra. like when there’s a play on stage and the band is right there in the pit, bringing the story to life through sound. We’ve always tried to approach the music as something quite theatrical and big, always willing to jump between genres and styles. So it made sense to write something that’s a complete story, an indie-opera, if you will….

Released March 7, 2025

Billy Marsh – Lead Vocals/Baritone Guitar
Austin Prichard – Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
Jamie Broughton – Trumpet/Drums/Samples
Alyx Ashton – Bass/Backing Vocals
Miles Goodall – Keys/Backing Vocals
Freddie J Watts – Saxophone
Bertie Beer – Drums

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A brooding concoction of pounding, The Birthday Party-esque gothic rock horrors and the larger than life theatrics of Tom Waits – amplified by expansive orchestral overloads and booming spoken word – ‘Loving & Still’ is the band’s most grimly thrilling recording to date.

Produced by Ben Hampson (Lambrini Girls, Ditz) at Agricultural studios, the track delivers a lyrical maelstrom of anger and confusion, directed both inwards and outwards, as frontman
(and band founder) Billy Marsh explains:

“The opposite of a love letter, ‘Loving & Still’ attacks the general idea that you need to achieve a lot by the time you’re 30. It’s a mixture of anger towards myself, for not being where I perhaps should be in life, and towards the vapidness of modern social settings in general, and the feeling that ideas of success anyway are veiled in emptiness and fakery.”

Credits:
Produced by Ben Hampson

Engineered by Ben Hampson and Robert Smyth

Mastered by Stephen Kerrison

Recorded at Agricultural Audio

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