THØSS, performing on the main stage at the OnBlackheath Music Festival 2016
Hailing from Fleet, singer/songwriter THØSS is 6ft 6″ tall, just like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. For some reasons we do not know, he doesn’t fly in the NBA like them, but he sits instead behind a guitar, with whom he creates beautiful art-folk music. After almost a year of silence, he has finally given a perfect follow-up to his debut single Swing, a new track called IWITW where high-pitched vocals à la Bon Iver meet nostalgic guitar strums and measured percussions that make it a wonderful piece of modern folk. This guys seems to have a bright future ahead. Too bad that The Tallest Man On Earth was already taken as a moniker. It would have fitted perfectly. Hailing from Fleet, singer/songwriter. 26 year young THØSS, who hails from the warm suburban commuter haven that is Fleet, is about to release his debut EP, Benchwarmer, this spring and the first cut from it, the mighty 'IWITW', is now available to all ears. The acronym 'IWITW' may strike you as familiar, but before you mistakenly assume that this is a cover version of Backstreet Boys' 'I Want It That Way', let us assure you that we're talking about a brand new composition here, which borrows its title from the lyric "I was in the water, were you calling my name?". THØSS started out with musical aspirations as an early teen: "I can remember a 12-year-old me scrawling - questionable - lyrics onto a notepad in felt tip", he tells The 405, "and asking myself 'how does Billy Joel do it?' I never studied music at school so I just learnt through listening to records and writing bad songs." Written in the same bedroom where he grew up, 'IWITW' zooms in on the feeling of being submerged by one's own mind and the toll it can take on those closest to you. "It's one of the most intensely personal songs I've written," THØSS says, "and whilst not being completely straight down the line lyrically, it is an attempt at relaying an overwhelming difficult part of my life in a poetic way."
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Location: Blackheath, Lewisham, London, UK
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 2016, blackheath, festival, fleet, guitarist, main, music, musician, onblackheath, singer, songwriter, stage, Øss
