STORME are all about silver linings: the defiant little lockets of light that glimmer in even the blackest clouds. “I always to try to find hope, a reason to just hang on in there,” says one half of the fast-rising electronic pop duo, vocalist Amanda Liedberg. On new single ‘Volcano’, she and producer Gabriele Mazza bottle that feeling into four minutes of huge airy synths, percussive rattles and towering vocal hooks with echoes of Chvrches and Robyn. “It’s about someone leaving me. I felt shit. But I kept picturing this volcano as a huge force,” Liedberg explains. “It’s a song about seeing yourself through.” As she puts it on ‘Volcano’, before the track truly erupts: “strength can grow on the darkest roads.”

Championed by The Line Of Best Fit and picked up by Spotify’s influential New Music Friday playlist already in their short career, the pair’s own road to this point hasn’t been dark, but it has been winding. Liedberg grew up in Sweden, spending a lot of time in Tegane, west of Stockholm, in a forest, by a lake. Mazza meanwhile grew up in Italy, in a music-obsessed family similarly surrounded by nature (his home was located in front of a vineyard in the country). It wasn’t till they both moved to London to study that their paths crossed, and the duo began to collaborate. “London really inspired the electronic side of our tastes and our sound,” says Mazza, whose love for electronic experimenters Four Tet and Jon Hopkins blossomed amid the hustle and bustle of the capital. He began to toy with Ableton Live and vintage 1980s synths found in the west London studio he uses, and before too long was lending ethereal soundscapes and skeletal beats to the emotional piano-and-vocal sketches Liedberg was creating.

“I always start at the piano, with the basics,” says Liedberg of her minimalist approach to crafting tracks, influenced by great pop hook writers like Sia, Max Martin and Kate Bush, as well as Bon Iver. “Lots of things are based on my life experience. Always when I write, I feel like it needs to really tell a story that comes from my heart.” Next, Mazza – a producer who’s “like a scientist and can spend hours tweaking synth sounds to perfection” according to Liedberg – adds what he calls “abstract, ethereal atmospheres,” and a STORME song is born. “It’s a formula we’re always working on,” smiles Mazza.

That musical chemistry first caught people’s attention last year, with the release of ‘Burning Echoes’, their first single together. Described as “effervescent” with an “explosive chorus” by The Line Of Best Fit, the track was a slow-burn of M83-inspired bass pulses and ecstatic “heys!” and handclaps that, with its lyrics about faded sunrises, touched on one of their favourite themes and inspiration: the drama, beauty and brutality of the wild. “I feel so lovely and so inspired around nature. It’s an ongoing theme, we’re always trying to find it. It’s a big part of our sound,” Liedberg says, who even named the project with nature in mind.

Though their synths may be glacier-sized, STORME are currently growing at a rate that’s far from glacier-paced. They’re fast honing their live show at gigs across the London scene, plans are in place for more singles beyond the stunning ‘Volcano’, ideas are growing for EPs and albums, and they’re laser-focused on creating a sound all of their own, that pushes the borders of electronic pop and fans will recognise immediately as STORME. “We dream big!” laughs Liedberg. The sky’s the limit, so that’s where STORME are heading. Where else are they going to find those silver linings?

Erin Bowman is a singer songwriter based out of Los Angeles. Erin’s music has been placed on many TV shows in the states from ‘This Is Us’ and ‘Dancing With The Stars’, to the Oscars, along with performing live on Good Morning America, The Radio Disney Music Awards, Live with Kelly & Ryan, and currently in the UK in the current JD Williams advert.

Born and bred in County Mayo, Ireland, Lisa Canny is a notably talented musician; best known for her enchanting covers and sold out live performances.

Lisa has performed to crowds of 50,000 and has toured all of the U.S., Canada, Europe & Russia as lead singer with Celtic Crossroads & The Young Irelanders.

She had a Top ten hit with “Lifeline” Ireland 2015, written with grammy-winning songwriter Jodi Marr and won UK Future Music’s 'Songwriting Champion' in 2016.

"Watch Lisa reinvent harp-playing" - Seán Rocks, RTE Arena

"Crossing so many genres it is hard to define" - Ryan Tubridy, The Late Late Show

"Top ten of Irish acts you don’t want to miss” - BBC America

Starting off as a little choir girl who performed for Hugh Jackman at his 40th Birthday, on screens at World Cup matches, for Olympians and with names like Olivia Newton-John, The Wiggles and John Farnham, Tash is now a London based Singer and Songwriter originally hailing from the land down under.

Tash has a delicate and soulful sound, backed by some serious power, sass and spice. Her real flair came from blending her love for old-school jazz with a more modern indie-folk sound when she lived in the Big Apple and performed in hotspots such as Arlene’s Grocery, Don’t Tell Mama and The Duplex. It was there that she also began writing originals with DJs and was pulled into the world of Electronic Dance Music.

Tash is stoked about performing at The Half Moon for the first time and is excited to share her stripped back originals.

Rory has written songs for 15 years as a singer and guitarist, in and out of various bands and set ups. After the separation of his most recent outfit he returned to music after a 2 year hiatus to see how he feel about it; so far so good.