Honey Now

John O' Groats fourpice Neon Waltz release their second studio album Honey Now via Fierce Panda Records.  The album includes the singles 'Thoughts / Dreams / Regrets', 'A Million People' and 'When All Is Said & Done'. There has been a seismic shift in the Neon Waltz band DNA since the release of their 2017 debut Strange Hymns. Somewhat bolstered by the onset of a global pandemic and changes in the band’s set-up, they seized the opportunity to completely reinvent themselves and find new ways of recording, writing and producing music. In Freswick Castle, 3 miles away from their hometown of John O’Groats in the very top of Scotland, they recorded their album with the help of Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice) and Tarek Musa (Spring King, Dead Nature). The album was initially birthed from the band’s disillusions with the music industry and what seemed like everyone involved. But through the creation of this album and gaining full artistic freedom, it gave them a fresh new outlook. Many of the songs reflect changing mindsets or accepting things as they are, whether it’s regarding people you love (‘When All Is Said and Done’) or accepting changes in yourself (‘Honey Now’). There’s also a pep-talk in the form of the track ‘Birthday’ which carries a very simple mantra - keep things simple and do only your very best. Meanwhile the soaring first single ‘Thoughts / Dreams / Regrets’ shows that flipping a situation to see it as the closing of one door and the opening of another is a better way of thinking.