Hello friends,
Oh My Sun is our new band. We like to write songs about the end of the world, being nostalgic, our love of trees and grandparents. Would you like to hear them?
Carmody and Tal 🥀
📸 @rebeccazephyrthomas
Hello there friends 💫
Just wanted to say hi, I’m still pottering along (very slowly) with new writes and navigating my sound in this rebirth of motherhood. Becoming someone’s mum has been a humbling experience and attempting to put anything alongside it has been a big juggle and I’ve never been a good juggler. So I’m writing in micro moments that are snatched from these very frenetic, beautiful days. The one above is about the dichotomy of losing everything you loved to do, but also being so in love, in a new, very wonderful kind of way - there’s no time to write songs, or hold a conversation with a friend, and I’m always putting tea in the microwave but Lennon has reminded me what it is to be human - to value love and closeness and wonder above all else- that’s it. And to be taught this again, at a time when the world is so broken and full of grief and sadness, feels so important. So yea, trying to write about that kind of thing 😂
BUT I do have a record release coming out this tomorrow with @ohmysunmusic , a project with the talented one @tal.janes I’m really proud of this collection of songs we’ve written and would love if you leant your ears to them to see if you do too 💫 it was obviously written before Lennon made his entrance, but it explores everything from nature, break ups and grandparents to the apocalypse. So yes, just wanted to send some love and say I’m still about, somewhere running in the ether of motherhood and music 💫
Hello friends, sorry I’ve been a little quiet on here, there’s so much going on in the world right now it’s been hard to find the right words 🧡 But, despite neglecting to announce I was even pregnant, I wanted to share that after a wild, and wonderfully gruesome, birth lil Lennon Jacob came to join us in the world a whole month early. We always felt he was an eager soul and thought he’d arrive before his due date but swapping a whole star sign took us by surprise, but it’s been magic since he joined us, so magic that sleep deprivation, baby brain and the long healing journey that my body is on feel like a fair exchange 🌱 excited for this journey of motherhood, excited to weave him into my songs, a never-ending source of inspiration ✨
Coming out of Insta hibernation to send some love to @tommisch for his beautiful new record and the most special show last night at KOKO ☀️
A seamless, heartfelt, nostalgic moment — watching you come full circle and return to music on your own terms 🌸
Such courageous work and your ability to hear exactly what a song needs, and where it wants to travel, will forever inspire me 💫 was a joy to play a small part in the writing on ‘Fear doesn’t hurt anymore than a dream’ ‘Sultan of silence’ and ‘Days of us’
Can’t wait to see where this next musical chapter carries you 🌊💫
Big love also to @lauraemisch for the 🎥
‘Live from the womb’, a collection of acoustic re-imaginings from our record ‘Apocalypse Baby’ out now as a bandcamp Friday exclusive! 💫 And out on all streaming platforms soon! Link in our bio 🧡
Recorded and mixed by @tal.janes
Artwork @alexanderhana
Mastering @brett_shaw_123_studios
Light Years Live from The Womb is out now! Love that the sound of dalstons seagulls made it into this recording
Hope you enjoy ☺️ full video on YouTube (link in our bio)
Filmed by @hedvigahlberg / @alexanderhana
Recorded / Mixed @tal.janes
Our ‘Apocalypse Baby’ music video is here !!!
We wrote this song when Carmody was thinking about having a baby and realised, if she brought someone into this world, they would potentially be an ‘Apocalypse Baby’. It’s a tongue in cheek musing on what life could be like in the near distant future for the next generations. Its heavy, but you can dance to it 💃🏻
Big love to @hedvigahlberg and @alexanderhana aka Deathkiss for bringing the song to life and having the genius idea of seeing London, its people and its rubbish through a baby’s eyes.
Directed and produced by Deathkiss
Camera - Deathkiss
Edit - @hedvigahlberg
Grade - @hansquires
Styling - @roshannahbagley
Design - @haswell
STARRING Maksimilian Kallhed, Roshannah Bagley, Seona Bell, Amit Kumar, Eva Jäger, Gabriel Davalos, Neo The Dog, Hedvig Ahlberg, Alexander Svensson, Tal Janes, Carmody, Baby Lennon
‘Apocalypse Baby’ our debut album is born today! A record written out of the chaos and wonder that interweave and mingle to create our terrifying, beautiful world. We hope you like it and the songs metamorphosize and take new shape in your eyes.
Colossal lovings to everyone involved in bringing this record into existence (last slide)
Let us know which tracks your feeling!
Carmody & Tal
XXX
10 years 💙
Returning to this record makes me feel so nostalgic 💫 Reminds me of long summers, and golden hours and lying by the sea. It’s trapped in a little time warp that feels so nice to visit once in a while. Strangely @tommisch and I have been singing these songs together the last couple of weeks and felt full circle when I realised it’s been 10 bloody years! A wild ride. So much has changed but these songs remain the same and continue to sail into the world living out their own little lives, it’s beautiful. Thanks for listening and big love to @tommisch for writing this record with me x
Today marks 4 years since the release of ‘My Jupiter’ 💫 this year also marks 5 years since losing my dad. It felt important to remember today. To sit with the things I’ve carved out of my sadness, and to reflect on the direction grief has taken me and ways I’ve learnt to navigate life without him. Before I wrote the record I thought it would be therapeutic, I’ve always believed writing teaches you how you feel, a window to your gut, a line straight through to your heart, but with grief, these visceral voices were hard to hear and packaging it all up to be consumed and added, or not, to this, or that, playlist. Felt too much. But a friend did suggest at the time that I’d be helping my future self in ways I can’t fathom or realise yet and I feel that now. I’m grateful for this record. For the words I found when I wasn’t afraid to wade into the sadness of loss. Nowadays I treat my grief like a cold pool of water that is always beside me, but I try not to wade in, it feels too risky to succumb and let myself be consumed again. But when I listen to these songs I connect a little to that feeling and to my dad. And as my grief continues to be ever-evolving I feel like I can return to him through the music. And that feels so precious. I remember in one of my lowest moments, I said to my therapist that my world was getting darker and she said she wasn’t afraid to sit in the dark with me. I carry those words with me, and just wanted to thank you for listening and staying a while in my sadness. I’m feeling much better now, though I will miss him always. Special thanks to the lovely folk who made this record possible and sat with me through it all x
