Agitated art rock from the Brecon Beacons. Climatic melodies, staccato guitars, arpeggiated synths and impellent beats. Like pulling back a metal sheet at the end of a garden and discovering a circuit board wired up to a tree. ‘A Letter’ is the first single from Gated Estates, and it’s a diaphanous masterpiece.
With slight echoes of Don’t Fear the Reaper between the artfully contorted crescendos built from appreciated synths and detached guitar notes, the soon-to-be icons of ‘agitated art-rock’ from the Brecon Beacons are easily one of the hottest acts I’ve heard this year.” – A&R Factory

‘A Letter’ is the first single from the eponymously titled debut album by Gated Estates. The video was shot on-location in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK. ‘A Letter’ explores the relationship we create between our younger innocent self and the future personality we develop through our unfolding experience of the world. The video was created by Martin Whittaker & TCLD and is available on youtube, here…

Swansea-born songwriter Dan Linn-Pearl, one half of Welsh experimental folk duo PEIRIANT, has written and produced a 10 track LP set to be released in 2023. Featuring on the record are Shane Dixon (Nick Parker, Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners), Rose
Linn-Pearl (Peiriant) Jonathan Morgan (OCTO-PI) and Darren Beale (The Caves, The Boomtown Rats). With artwork from Max Lilley @ Bite Design.

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