Biography
An inspired partnership uniting two established figures from the Glasgow music community, Poster Paints craft atmospheric, melody-driven indie pop laced with dreamy textures and touches of shoegaze guitar. Their sound centers on breathy vocals wrapped in buzzing guitar lines and layered percussion clouds, revealing a confident grasp of pop conventions on the self-titled debut album from 2022 while retaining enough force to anchor its rock elements.
The project began in 2021 when vocalist Carla J. Easton joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Simon Liddell. Easton had previously performed with Futuristic Retro Champions and TeenCanteen, then launched her solo work in 2016 via the album Homemade Lemonade. Her follow-up LP, Impossible Stuff, arrived in 2018 to strong critical notice and earned a nomination for the Scottish Album of the Year award. Liddell, known primarily for his guitar role in Frightened Rabbit—which ended in 2018 following the death of founder and leader Scott Hutchison—and for his stint in Olympic Swimmers, connected with Easton through shared acquaintances Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee of the Vaselines. Easton had once played keyboards alongside Kelly. While developing music for a film score, Liddell sent Easton a track and requested a vocal contribution; she responded by building a complete song around the material, an outcome that pleased him despite diverging from his original intent.
Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to work from home, the pair continued exchanging tracks in the same manner, generating a new set of songs. Assisted by Eugene Kelly, they composed and tracked the song “Number One,” which became Poster Paints’ debut single in May 2021 after the duo adopted that name. “Never Saw It Coming” followed in August, and the following month the group played its first concerts, supporting Teenage Fanclub on three Scottish dates. The early singles, joined by “Blood Orange” and “Into Your Arms,” formed the EP Blood Orange, issued in May 2022. Strong notices for those recordings paved the way for the full-length Poster Paints, released in October 2022 on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
The project began in 2021 when vocalist Carla J. Easton joined forces with multi-instrumentalist Simon Liddell. Easton had previously performed with Futuristic Retro Champions and TeenCanteen, then launched her solo work in 2016 via the album Homemade Lemonade. Her follow-up LP, Impossible Stuff, arrived in 2018 to strong critical notice and earned a nomination for the Scottish Album of the Year award. Liddell, known primarily for his guitar role in Frightened Rabbit—which ended in 2018 following the death of founder and leader Scott Hutchison—and for his stint in Olympic Swimmers, connected with Easton through shared acquaintances Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee of the Vaselines. Easton had once played keyboards alongside Kelly. While developing music for a film score, Liddell sent Easton a track and requested a vocal contribution; she responded by building a complete song around the material, an outcome that pleased him despite diverging from his original intent.
Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to work from home, the pair continued exchanging tracks in the same manner, generating a new set of songs. Assisted by Eugene Kelly, they composed and tracked the song “Number One,” which became Poster Paints’ debut single in May 2021 after the duo adopted that name. “Never Saw It Coming” followed in August, and the following month the group played its first concerts, supporting Teenage Fanclub on three Scottish dates. The early singles, joined by “Blood Orange” and “Into Your Arms,” formed the EP Blood Orange, issued in May 2022. Strong notices for those recordings paved the way for the full-length Poster Paints, released in October 2022 on Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Albums
Singles
