WARBY - Mystic Powers WARBY

On 28th August, art-rock and soul-inspired singer-songwriter WARBY finally releases his much-anticipated debut album, Mystic Powers. That same day, he will also play his first solo show. Having spent a lifetime encouraging others to tour and record, WARBY is steeped in music and live touring, has run indie labels, recorded with the group R.O.C, occasionally performing live, but has never released or performed any of his own songs before now.

"I was always going to sing, be a musician," says WARBY, "like my Dad, but in my early twenties I was pulled further and further into the business of live music by a succession of phenomenal artists. I continued writing on and off for years, but as the thrills and spills of working with other musicians and my concert booking role expanded, I could never truly find enough time to develop my ideas fully."

In 2020, as the world shut down and touring ground to a halt, a seemingly permanently busy WARBY suddenly found that he had the luxury of time on his hands. He began writing songs, recording home demos of himself singing, playing guitar, bass, and keyboards over programmed drums, and it soon became clear that a substantial amount of ideas and music now existed.

"When it came to the writing and recording of these songs... well, what started as a relatively gentle sensation became more insistent until it was hammering at my very being. I had no choice other than to get them down."

Mystic Powers was produced by James Knight, who gave WARBY space to work up the arrangements in his studio located in a roomy basement in Stoke Newington. WARBY called upon his friends Mal Troon (Jim Jones, Sea Power) on lead guitar and Patrick Nicholson (R.O.C, Mark Eitzel) on piano, alongside the tight rhythm section of Adam Betts (Pulp, David Gilmour) on drums and Dan Drury (Jarvis Cocker, James Taylor Quartet) on bass.