Growing with every release!
Thank you for responding to our last call for pre-save’s, you played a huge part in our last single ‘Lost Boys’ getting placed on 4 big Spotify playlists including our first ever UK New Music Friday. Frankly, and I don’t say this lightly… you rock.
So here we go! Our distributor Richard tells us that if we can get to that magical 200+ number of pre-saves then we’ll have a great chance of getting ‘Clio’ playlisted and heard by many more ears, potentially getting a spot even higher than ‘Lost Boys’. There are about a thousand of you on this list so together we could make this happen right now! I promise it’s a 30 second job, see below how we’ve made it worth your while…
As a deal sweetener this time we created some unique incentives. Pre-Save Lost Boys with your email address now to be entered into a competition to win a Clio Cover Art print merch t-shirt (exclusively designed for this competition)! On Tuesday we’ll send the song pre-release listen link to every one that has pre-saved, so you’ll hear it early*** days before its streaming release! 🖤 📢
Serendipitously I’m told that the release weekend for ‘Clio’ coincides with “The opposition of Saturn, meaning Saturn will be visible in the sky on August 26th & 27th. Maybe not that big though!”. Thanks to our Patron Clare Smith for that info, and for the clarification on size 😂🪐.
***Patrons; you can find the full song premiere now on our Patreon
Seriously, imagine how good you’d look in this T-Shirt 😍
Clio - Song Explainer
‘Clio’ is a song that came to life during a time when inspiration was eluding me. It's a heartfelt prayer to the Greek Muse, Clio, who was known to be the source of storytelling and creative spark. My long-time friend & collaborator, Jessica Sharman, and I wrote this song after a heart-to-heart about the magic and mystery of songwriting. We wondered how some songs effortlessly fall into place like gifts from above, while others take exhaustive effort before they reveal themselves. We likened this to the unpredictable nature of success, where some songs instantly catch a wave of popularity, while others can fall flat upon release and then find their moment later down the line, and its quite impossible to predict which.
There's a lot of honesty in the lyrics; at the time of writing the song I'd been uninspired and questioning when or if our next big levelling up moment might come along. All of that uncertainty channelled itself into what ironically turned out to be quite an inspired piece of music, with its scene changes and its twists and turns.
I've since learned to let go and to trust the process a lot more, we have to pour ourselves into the things we make, we try to be as honest about our human experience as we can and we leave the rest up to the universe (Or even the gods).
- Matt
“Did I have my chance?
Did you overlook me?
Well you move so fast
You were gone so quickly
Is it all that we’ll have?
Is that all you’re giving?
Only half a dance
Before you moved on,
you moved on without me”
House Show tour
We’re so hyped for this and we have enough applicants to get started with organising it now, so if you’ve already reached out about hosting Belle Mt. for an acoustic house show in the lead up to our album release this year, stand by for an email with details this week!
The first show we’ve announced is going to be a solo acoustic show for our incredible fan Susanne in Sibbesse, Germany. If you'd like to buy a ticket to attend that show then reach out to Susanne via her Instagram HERE. If you’d like to reach out about hosting a house show yourself click through to the site below to contact us and we’ll be in touch this week.
Belle Mt. Patreon fan community; It’s been a lot of fun to get to know our fans more closely this year and to share way more of our process. Social media gets in-between us all and we’d love your help to keep on making music ✨
Click the picture below to find out more about our Patreon community👇 if you join now, not only can you jump right in the discord chat and attend the live streams but you get the benefit of all the previous posts we’ve shared, including exclusive live videos and previously unheard song demos.
Belle Mt. Patreon membership comes with access to our community discord chat group, a monthly zoom hang concert with our community and other unique tier dependent perks. Most of all it helps us to stay independent and to keep making music🤘
Is there someone that you think would really connect with Belle Mt.? Share this email and let’s welcome them in! 🖤