Album review: TV Priest – My Other People

The time delay between conceiving and releasing an album means that music heavily shaded by two years of lockdowns will continue to seep into the world. TV Priest​’s debut Uppers was written in the heady before times and revolved around a heady swirl of chaos and noise. It made a relatively big splash in the void of unprecedented times but left the band stranded, untested and unable to tour. Follow-up My Other People is a more restrained and reflective piece of work, informed at least in part by that shared sense of enforced ennui and frontman Charlie Drinkwater’s shored up mental health. ​‘I need to sleep, so very very deeply,’ he drawls across a dirge of guitars and it sounds like he absolutely means it. Bury Me In My Shoes continues in much the same vein but wit...

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