Kyle Lamley is a third year student on Resonance’s Popular Music Performance course and, with his band THEIA, is proving that you don’t have to wait until you’ve graduated to begin working as a musician. Alongside his brother Ash on drums, Kyle has just released a new EP called The Wet Die Young.

Listen to The Wet Die Young here.

The EP is five tracks long, with songs ranging from melodic alternative rock to tear-out dubstep and everything in between. Kyle originally wrote and produced the tracks here at Resonance, with one of the tracks, Everything, being submitted as an assignment piece. Final production of The Wet Die Young was handled by David Radahd-Jones (Boston Manor, Death Blooms, Papa Roach) at Red City Recordings in Manchester.

I asked Kyle how he thinks his time at Resonance has helped shape his music with THEIA, and this was his experience:

“I’ve had lots of opportunities to sit, write and refine in the comfort of the studios at Resonance, and one of the benefits of that has been taking the ideas to people in the building; the other students and lecturers. There’s a community here, and we can bounce ideas off each other. That was one of the big draws for me coming to Resonance as a mature student. The facilities available at Resonance have helped me bring together the writing and production of my music to strengthen the final outcome.”

THEIA is Kyle’s main project and, alongside his studies at Resonance, he and his brother are already well established performers and recording artists. The duo have performed around the UK and onto foreign shores with acts like Skindred, The Fratellis, Stone Broken, and most recently an extensive tour with Magnum.

“The Wet Die Young is the new watermark for a band who, frankly, have never had a bad release. There’s newfound confidence in the brothers Lamley, knowing when to throw a wall of sound at the listener and when to provide bare-bones moments to push the songs along. THEIA are everything I want in a band in 2023 – fun, alternative, modern and doing something a bit different from everyone else with a massive sound.”

– Ross Green, Moshville Times

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