Black Honey | A Fistful of Peaches (2023)

Rising from cult underground favorites on their self-titled 2018 debut through to a genuine breakthrough success story on 2021’s Top 10-charting follow up Written & Directed has seen them recently support the likes of Liam Gallagher, The Libertines, IDLES, The Vaccines and more, on top of their own sold out headline touring. On ‘A Fistful of Peaches’ – Black Honey band most personal, revealing album yet and a record that embraces every side: the palatable and the monstrous, the hopeful and the pitch black – Izzy suggests, “If the vibe of ‘Written & Directed’ was creating this whole Tarantino world and this safe space…

…of me almost refusing help and saying I was fine, then with this album it’s the opposite. Lockdown had happened, I’d had two years of not writing anything and feeling like my entire purpose had gone down the drain, I’d been in intense therapy which was exhausting, and what came out was just me regurgitating things from my entire life and building my brain cells back to how they should be,” she explains. “I’ve had to be more honest and vulnerable with myself, but I feel like I’d be disservicing anyone who spends their time and passion and energy into this project to not fucking unveil it all.”
“If the vibe of ‘Written & Directed’ was creating this whole Tarantino world and this safe space of me almost refusing help and saying I was fine, then with this album it’s the opposite. Lockdown had happened, I’d had two years of not writing anything and feeling like my entire purpose had gone down the drain, I’d been in intense therapy which was exhausting, and what came out was just me regurgitating things from my entire life and building my brain cells back to how they should be. I’ve had to be more honest and vulnerable with myself, but I feel like I’d be disservicing anyone who spends their time and passion and energy into this project to not fucking unveil it all.
“Most of this record is me trying to figure out where the line is between normal mental health and when you’re having breakdowns every day that then become part of normal. I thought everyone cried everyday, I thought everyone had traumatic flashbacks and nightmares. This album is like, what the fuck? I didn’t have to have that? It’s like opening a new door to a future that I didn’t think possible, but it’s also soured by the realisation that I had to suffer through so much that I shouldn’t have had to. I don’t know what I’ll make next but it won’t be where I was when I made this.” Izzy Phillips

Black Honey’s discography, compiled of their 2018 self-titled debut and 2021’s Top 10 follow-up, ‘Written & Directed‘, has allowed Izzy Bee Phillips to become a spokesperson for life’s outliers, connecting her with like-minded souls who resonate with her memories of adolescent struggles and attempts to find a connection in an often-difficult world. But it’s not until now, with the release of their third studio album ‘A Fistful of Peaches’, that Phillips has fully bared her soul.
Listeners are first greeted with the murderous ‘Charlie Bronson’ – possibly the band’s most exhilarating track to date. Lyrically, the track addresses the issue of female anger being seen as ‘unfeminine’, it sees Black Honey go completely feral, serving a middle finger to stereotypes around female emotion, with its first verse seeing the protagonist kill a girl called Isobel. The Forty-Five

Black Honey: A Fistful of Peaches

01. Charlie Bronson
02. Heavy – Have a Listen
03. Up Against It
04. Out Of My Mind
05. Rock Bottom
06. Cut The Cord
07. OK
08. I’m A Man
09. Nobody Knows
10. Weirdos
11. Tombstone
12. Bummer

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Black Honey | A Fistful of Peaches (2023)

Black Honey: A Fistful of Peaches

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