Over the last few years, Keston Cobblers Club have been steadily building a name for themselves. Their last album ‘Wildfire’ won them huge praise everywhere from MOJO Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent, to name a few. Their live shows are displays of genuine warmth and dazzling musicianship, honed over years of playing some of the UK’s biggest festivals, including Glastonbury, Bestival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Wilderness and Green Man; they even ran their own festival, Camp Wildfire two years ago. They’ve been playlisted by 6Music and Amazing Radio; and been invited to perform live on BBC Radio by the likes of Dermot O’Leary, Steve Lamacq and Bob Harris. In 2015 Burberry asked the band to perform at their Menswear SS2106 event to a VIP audience and after a triumphant UK tour including sell-out dates at London’s Lexington and Scala, the band were invited to open for Bellowhead on their farewell tour – a highlight of the band’s career so far. “What a dream come true” says Bethan. “We’ve all been fans for so long and to be able to support them felt like a massive achievement professionally, and personally just a real pleasure.”

While continuing to showcase huge hooks, intricate melodies and the kind of honest, accessible lyrics that have already won them an army of loyal fans – ‘Almost Home’ actually sees the 5-piece taking a more simple approach to their song writing, as lead singer Matt explains: “The idea was to go back to song writing in its simplicity, based around nostalgia and the idea of ‘home’. We were careful not to over embellish or over produce, instead we wanted to concentrate on the story and melodies.” The result is a stunning 12-track collection where the song writing shines. It feels weightier and more accomplished than anything they’ve done before, demonstrating a musical maturity that could easily cross them over to the mainstream. Highlights include the poignant optimism of title track and first single, ‘Almost Home’ – a great representation of the album as a whole according to Cobblers’ Tom. ‘Concord’ is just as pretty, built around the banjo and slowly building to an orchestral crescendo. There’s the flawless indie-folk of ‘Bicycles’ and the standout ‘Demons’ which sees Jules taking turn on lead vocals to beautiful effect.