White Flowers // Powders | Small Hours @ Snapes Printworks

This one's set to be a special one. White Flowers bring their unique sound to the lofty rafters of Snapes Printworks, giving their fellow Prestonians a chance to catch them in a one-off limited capacity show before they embark on their UK tour. Powders support to warm up proceedings, joined by Bolts running tunes between the bands/until kick-out time. Tickets likely to fly out for this one so don't sleep!!!

White Flowers

Through White Flowers, longtime collaborators Joey Cobb and Katie Drew have conjured their own universe. “We call it the realm,” Drew explains. “It’s this weird space that we enter together.”
Within that world, the confines of regular life are obsolete. Time, rather than being a restrictive force, is fluid and boundless, with their music existing as an endless conversation with themselves at different points in their lives.
Following their acclaimed debut album Day By Day in 2021, the pair released a string of EPs pushing the confines of dream pop into increasingly alien territory. Having garnered a small cult following, they were invited on an EU tour with Beach House in 2022, followed by a UK tour with Just Mustard.
On their second album, Dreams For Somebody Else, the Preston duo expand upon the dark-hued dream pop of their debut, channelling the catharsis of dance music via repetitive structures and “sad, euphoric sounds”. Working alongside LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle on production, the album maps out a mosaic of soaring choruses that swirl around imposing arrays of synths, guitars, and percussion.

Powders

Following five years of improvised live shows, film scores and jams, Carl Brown and Josh Horsley align to offer a bittersweet record of shimmering noise and textured Fourthworld ambience.
What began as sample-heavy collage music slowly shifted as the pair crafted new live sets to embrace classical and noise music, always treated with an experimental spirit and minimalist sleight.
Powders stripped back the set up for these album sessions, this time leaning more heavily on the use of granular synthesis with cello as the lead instrument and sound source.
‘Concede to Circumstance’ sees Powders exploring their hometown of Preston and it’s longstanding experimental underbelly - not as a location that demands elsewhere aspiration or an outward face but as a place to din and to be.
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