White Flowers - Day By Day

Released11th June 2021.

For songwriting duo Joey Cobb and Katie Drew of White Flowers, one of the most exciting young bands in the UK right now, it was only on leaving London to return to their native Preston that the dark-hued dreampop of their debut album, DayBy Day, began to crystalize.

"Theres something uniquely bleak about the North, says Joey, speaking from the abandoned textile mill that WhiteFlowers call home, but in that bleakness theres a certain beauty.

The pair had left Preston for London to study at art college, and it was there that they first began to explore the nascent psych scene bubbling under in the few remaining arts-orientated spaces in the east of the city. It soon inspired them tobegin work on music of their own.

We didnt want to be a psych band, explains Katie, "discovering that music gave us both energy and focus. Wevespent so many years developing these songs, because I think it was important