Turkish Alt Rock Band Bits in Pockets Announce Their Debut EP, “The Bits”, Due April 29th
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Turkish alternative-rock band Bits in Pockets announce their debut EP, “The Bits”, due April 29 via MMY Records. With the news, the band shares the first single and video “Collette”.
“Collette” has a frantic yet carefully crafted pace - its deft dynamics and restive beat straining at the shackles of a brief, frustrating lockdown relationship. Dönmez’ guitar chimes in and around burbling bass as rhythmic cascades thunder past like a missed last train.
The track is described by songwriter Emre Arduman as, “a pandemic story wrapped in a relationship story. I started dating a girl in the middle of the pandemic and surely it was bad for me.”
“It felt a bit off-beat at first - the conversations were not quite there in terms of the flow. I was doing all the events that I wanted to participate in: going to movies, car rides, sitting together on a roof with the view of the bosphorus, yet it felt wrong to be there. She left me more hopeless in the pursuit of raw emotion. I could never quite tell what she was thinking, what she was feeling. The song is the honesty I dared not to confront of pandemic frustration wrapped in a relationship.”
Bits in Pockets is high school friends vocalist Arduman, guitarist Derin Dönmez, bassist Ata Tuna, and drummer Tibet Ahunbay. The quartet became an international and often online phenomenon, with members contributing from the UK and Canada while at college, between spells of feverish face-to-face creativity back in Istanbul.
Bits in Pockets’ name refers to those random yet soul-feeding scraps of nostalgia found forgotten in garments: ticket stubs from heady nights on the town; mementos of your first flat and all that it meant to you; detritus from cherished friendships, recalling chapters of raw, adolescent joy.
The Bits EP similarly captures snapshots of stories, many of them Arduman’s experiences as a student in bustling, cosmopolitan London. It documents an existence shared by so many in a globalized but now restricted society: visceral and virtual, multi-national and ultra-local, together yet all too often alone. The record celebrates and savors those moments of eyes-locking intimacy and simple human connection that defy an increasingly impersonal planet.
Watch the brand new visual for “Collette” below, connect with Bits in Pockets on their social media and be ready for their EP, due out April 29th!
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