Gulp

Welsh indie pop quartet Gulp emerged from the creative partnership of vocalist Lindsey Leven and her husband Guto Pryce, the Super Furry Animals founder, centering their music on vintage synths, pulsing rhythms, and gentle psychedelic textures. What began as a home-recording venture—with Pryce handling bass and synths alongside Leven’s soft, airy vocals and an old Roland 505 drum machine given by her yoga instructor—evolved into a full live ensemble once guitarist Gid Goundrey and drummer Gwion Llewelyn joined. The resulting lush, optimistic songs struck a distinctive equilibrium between sunny retro pop and richly textured electronica.

Their debut single, “Game Love,” appeared in June 2012, after which the band spent the remainder of the year supporting British art pop act Django Django on a tour of the U.K. and Ireland. A follow-up single, “Play,” surfaced the next year amid continued U.K. performances. The quartet’s first album, Season Sun, arrived in July 2014 via the Sonic Cathedral imprint. Recording for the subsequent record took place in the couple’s basement studio, where they methodically shaped material and explored sonic possibilities, until the birth of their first child and a subsequent relocation from Wales to Scotland’s east coast paused the process.

Evidence of resumed work surfaced with the 2016 single “Search for Your Love,” issued on Tim Burgess’ O Genesis Recordings, followed in 2017 by “Morning Velvet Sky,” produced by Luke Abbott and released on the band’s own E.L.K imprint. Abbott also handled mixing duties for the second album, the more musically adventurous and melancholy All Good Wishes, which appeared on E.L.K in August 2018.