Shell Company & Older Brother tap into the Mancunian continuum to deliver heavy sounds for heavy times on 'Shards', their debut release on Numbers. The 4-track EP is out in full on April 18, 2025 following the single, '4U (Luv Thing)'.
4U
IT’S NOT A LOVE THING
BUT IT’S A LOVE THING
IT’S NOT A LOVE THING
BUT IT’S A LOVE THING
Born from voice notes sent between Manchester, London and Lisbon, the release took shape remotely before being recorded inside Manchester’s The White Hotel, then refined in the sonic labs of Numbers and La Chunky in Glasgow.
Set across one night, 'Shards' is the fragments of the never ending process of breakdown and placing pieces back together. Along four tracks, the voices of Shell Company (Rosabella Allen) and Older Brother begin far apart, then argue, reflect and collide, trying to find the ground they stand on, with the music laid by brothers Rob and Chris Banks. The two voices work both together and against each other, rendering images that could only exist in limbo: running taps, cans on the floor, and crumbling walls.
Older Brother met Shell Company at their first London show at Spanners, where they all returned in March 2025, this time together - live dates below.
