As The Howl & The Hum, Griffiths has spent the best part of the last decade honing this capacity for raw, vulnerable storytelling combined with music that artfully traverses everything from finger-picking folk to indie, country and electronica. With the release of his second album, Same Mistake Twice, Griffiths confronts the pain and chaos of recent tumultuous years across 12 tracks of his most direct songwriting to date. Surviving the breakup of his band, the global pandemic and reckoning with his future in music, Griffiths opens with the lines “I never make the same mistake twice/ I always aim for a third time,” before spiralling into finely-spun tales of dread, anxiety and self-destruction. 

Experimental, psychedelic rock: that's what you can expect from the four-piece band Neptune Bloom. Their obsession with strange sounds results in a dreamy, unusual rock sound. In 2021, the band reached the finals of Sound Track, which was also the year they released their debut single, Daydreamer. This spring, Neptune Bloom released their first EP, Silver Skin. According to Eppo Janssen, they’re the Beach House of the Hageland, and for us, the perfect opener for The Howl & The Hum!

For fans of King Krule, Moon Duo, and Beach House.