ABOUT: MONEY

The Money shot, as it were.

Shadow of Heaven album art.

Hailing from Manchester, MONEY are a four-piece band consisting of frontman Jamie Lee, guitarist/keyboardist Charlie Cocksedge, bassist/keyboardist Scott Beaman and drummer Billy Byron. Lee's poetic nature is his music personified; with Wu Lyf style euphoria coated in pained vocals that sound like they want to sing to the entire world, their album Shadow of Heaven is a masterpiece. Just looking at the artwork (my personal favourite album art ever) gives you a rough idea of their sound - an oxymoron in itself, melancholic happiness runs through the record - so much so that if you went to one of their gigs, you'd expect to walk into the room and be immediately transformed into black and white. 

Single Hold Me Forever is their most played song on Spotify by quite a way. It consists of layers of carefully chosen sighs of sound on top of twinkling guitar and incredibly emotion-soaked vocals exclaiming "and it's true that I love everybody, as it's true I love no-one". The song finishes with cries of "heaven is real", an example of the continuous religious motif throughout the album (see tracks entitled So Long (God is Dead) and Cruelty of Godliness for proof). 

If there was ever a band you'd want to listen to in the event of being stood atop a high building, wearing denim and outstretching your arms to the world (like Lee on the album artwork), then MONEY is it. Before listening to them, I had never heard so much emotion being put into not only the vocals, but every inch of every song they've created. They are wonderful, and frankly deserve more attention than they currently get. 

Listen for yourself, and see:



Written by Molly McGrath