{"id":59410,"date":"2015-10-23T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=59410"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:33:24","slug":"new-noise-novella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2015\/10\/23\/new-noise-novella\/","title":{"rendered":"New Noise: NOVELLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wonderland\u00a0<\/em>get to know dream-pop quintet, Novella, a little bit better.<\/p>\n

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Novella are a London-based group who are making waves with\u00a0a line in woozy dream pop with a strong psychedelic streak; they have their beginnings in\u00a0Brighton, 2010, when two guitarists and a bassist \u2013 Hollie Warren, Sophy Hollington and Suki Sou \u2013 became friends through a mutual love of Black Sabbath and 60s counter-culture (as you do). Fast forward a few years, add a drummer, Iain Lewis, and that essential keyboardist, Isabel Spurgeon, and Novella have a debut album under their belts, Land<\/em>. The record manages to take their wide range of influences (Krautrock, Shoegaze, psych-rock\u2026you get the picture) and distill and condense them into a cohesive sound that is all Novella\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

With a distinct visual identity, the video for the track \u2018Land Gone\u2019 features the achingly millennial mixture of a beret, a Western shirt and a backdrop of marbled psychadelica, as well as a thoughtful, considered approach to making music (their limited output thus far is evidence of their quality-over-quantity philosophy, a rare thing in our digital age), Novella are destined for good things. We sit down with them to talk influences, the gender dynamics of an almost-Girl-Band, and the importance of quitting your day job.<\/p>\n