APRE: "See you in the charts"

Get ready for a whole lot of new material from alt-pop wonders APRE. With a fab mini-album about to land, and a debut proper "pretty much" finished, co-vocalists Charlie and Jules have done a great job of making the best out of a proper rubbish year.

Jules! Hello. How's it going? What are you lot up to at the moment? It's going great. We are stuck in our little studio mastering the upcoming mini-album and just writing some new tunes! Feeling more inspired than ever in terms of writing; it's probably a subconscious reaction to what's going on around us right now.

Tell us about your new mini-album then - what inspired it? Is there an overarching theme? 'Always In My Head' is eight tracks long, some of the tunes are over two years old now. We didn't feel like we wanted to release our debut album this year, due to all the current goings on on planet earth, so a mini-album seemed pretty appropriate as we knew we probably wouldn't be able to tour it yet. This collection of songs are all linked to the goings on in Charlie's head, where music is a platform for him to escape from all the negative, worrying thoughts that often overload his head. The whole thing is a message of escapism, we repeatedly asked each other 'what's life really worth?' and 'Why do we fixate on pleasing other people constantly?' and these songs are us attempting to answer those questions.

What was the timeline like on putting it together, how much was made post the pandemic kicking in? All the songs were actually written pre-COVID. But everything was finished during the pandemic as we had so much time on our hands to really delve into the sonics of each song and perfect everything. We even got an orchestra to remotely perform on a track called 'I Know I'll Find It' right at the start of lockdown which was a weird experience.