Black Honey share new single ‘Charlie Bronson’
“I’m a woman finding power so don’t expect an apology any time soon.”
Izzy Phillips, Black Honey
2021 saw the UK’s finest independent rock band Black Honey stealthily bother the Top 10 with their second album ‘Written & Directed’. The ambitious and cinematic project saw the band push their sound to new heights and landed at number 7 in the UK album charts. This sophomore record gave Black Honey the recognition they duly deserved after years of heads-down hardwork and creative graft amongst the alt-indie glitterati of the British music scene.
Getting straight back to business, today Izzy & co share their visceral new song ‘Charlie Bronson’ alongside an almost literal punch-in-the-guts video set in a boxing gym which depicts the blurred lines between sex and gender that many continue to wrestle with and fight against. Watch HERE.
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Iz explains, “There’s a personality in my head that feels like Britain’s most notorious prisoner. Sometimes I can’t make sense of anything. It’s a bind of frustration from having to constantly present myself in a way that society accepts. My mind works differently. I say all the wrong things. I hate being ‘ladylike’. I was punished so much for what I know to be my good qualities; a strong minded neurodivergent person who is creative, inquisitive, excitable and in my own universe.
I was medicated, my shine dimmed and I began to see how the world rewards women who turn invisible. ‘Charlie Bronson’ is my rage.”
To celebrate the release of new music, Black Honey are packing out an underplay show at Londons’ Omera on August 16th followed by their first time gracing the main stage at Reading & Leeds Festival on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th respectively.
Black Honey have been on a journey; as upstart newcomers to the UK indie scene Black Honey came like a breath of fresh air with their debut album in 2018. ‘Written & Directed’ saw them grow into a new space sonically and earned them wide critical acclaim. With this new music digging deeper again into their collective psyche, they are an ever-evolving entity and with their magic ingredient Izzy leading the charge with her vision, vigour and vulnerability, Black Honey can only continue to scale.
