Leeds alt-folk-pop duo Sunflower Thieves share their new single, ‘Already Taken’.
Sunflower Thieves, childhood friends Amy Illingworth and Lily Sturt-Bolshaw, combine pop, indie, and folk into a dreamy soundscape.
‘Already Taken’ explores the struggle of moving on after someone leaves and their lingering presence.
“We wrote this song with two of our closest friends, Sam Perry and Tom Hammond, while I was right in the midst of the feeling it describes. I’d also had to give up my first car for scrap a few months previously to the break up, which felt like another first love lost, and was so interconnected with that relationship.
Amy Illingworth
We got my brother Laurie to play piano across this track, which was recorded at home and is so special to us – it became such a huge part of how the song moves. He’s a huge part of the Sunflower Thieves family and one of the people who made the sadness I was feeling at the time, a lot lighter, which we feel he’s also done on the track.
Personally, the song feels comforting now, being so far away from the feelings it depicts, but to someone else, it might be just what they need as they’re going through something.”
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