pencil

pencil is Kamran Khan (vocals, acoustic guitar), Dom Potts (bass), Thomas Fiquet (drums), Cai Burns (lead guitar), and Coco Inman (violin). New bands rarely form later down the line; but as a circle of working musicians, pencil have been drawn to create and explore together.

Bohemian Clutter plays with the phantasmagorical sense that music can be seen – in ‘Silent Corners’ a stringed breeze flutters through the intro before coiling round a feline breakbeat. In the sepia cityscape it conjures, misty vocals coalesce around the glassy interplay of guitars before building up to a swirling, cascade of sound. Elsewhere, ambient interlude ‘The Fork’ – originally conceived as a stage-tuning segue – evolves from the alchemy of pencil’s live show.
 
Pensive, sincere, and lusciously elegiac, Bohemian Clutter encapsulates the interactive density of pencil’s sound. In its atmosphere and songwriting there is something distinctive about this EP; it cracks open the band’s sonic dreams and opens itself up to the dawning future of a statement album.