LABEL
Common Knowledge Records is a creative incubator in which new artists are funded and supported in their most formative releases. We believe in empowering artists to tell their own stories by helping to realise both their sonic and visual aspirations, and providing a unique platform for artists to build sincere and lasting audience development.
ACTIVE SIGNINGS
DÉYYESS
Déyyess evokes songs from well-translated feelings that delicately touch on queer moments, recalling their desires, jealousies, pleasures and heartaches. Catchy and irresistible, their writing gives us a bittersweet escape through their own experiences of what truly feels like individual and connecting instances. Each release exploring a facet of the indie/shoe-gaze genre, Déyyess layers soft and dark expressions to sink our hearts and bodies into.
CALLINSICK
A songwriter and guitarist from Cumbria, now based in London. callinsick has been working closely with producers Jonah Stevens, Dan Hynlu and James Dring, recently writing for artists such as Amie Blu, Red Electric & Jess Martins. His music flows from sparse bedroom folk to alternative rock, indie and sweeping ethereal pop, entwined together by the multi-instrumentalist's vivid songwriting. Mediating on themes of brotherhood, masculinity, love, and loss, he notes his take on the modern, capitalist world.
ALEX IVY
Telling stories from the places our memories exist in, Alex Ivy creates an atmospheric balance between deep-rooted personal history and the sharing of our emotions in their natural waves. His alternative indie sounds find their duty in sharing life’s raw and honest display through a social lens, that takes a DIY approach to its entertainment. Giving room to subversion, his songwriting and production create intentional twists that give his listeners a cinematic conclusion, under the guidance of his voice.
LABEL ALUMNI
MARTI PERRAMON
Marti Perramon shares his own coming of age story through his music, exploring adolescent life and conveying the reality of coming to terms with yourself and your feelings whilst moving into adulthood. His first solo project, 'Conversations For Dreamers’, follows the timeline of a relationship breaking down and the emotional journey that it can take you on. Playfully deep and explorational, the EP shows highs and lows, melancholy and outbursts, and truly reveals all our emotions in growing up and having relationships.
GLIMJI
Engrossed in Manchester’s irreverent music culture, Glimji has developed a sound that casually flutters through bright electronic rave synths and bumpy saturated drums that are put through his lens of psychedelia and Britpop songwriting. Making roots in dance with trance / UK garage, his sound has progressed to become more experimentative, taking influence from the alt / pop space. Releasing both singles ‘Sweetpea’ and ‘Blush’, Glimji truly found his sound, continuing to experiment with it further.
DEXTER IN THE NEWSAGENT
Immersive, laid back, and truthful, Dexter gives bedroom pop a new face, forming a discoverable introspection on the space that encompasses the details of their personal life, ideas around love, and social relationships experienced so far. Releasing an EP to compound all their reflections titled ‘I Do Love a Good Sandwich’ with Common Knowledge, she continued releases with the next two singles ‘Paper Cup’ & ‘Different’, finding a dreamier tone.
NINA COBHAM
Using their bilingual upbringing, Nina fuses English songwriting with Spanish lines to create soothing songs that resonate with the soul. Deemed representations of her mind, she finds motivation in the escapism of feelings by falling into someone else’s vision and seeing the way we can get lost in our own nostalgia. Her debut EP ‘what does this colour feel like’ brought together the world through her eyes, retelling what felt like a journal of her thoughts and feelings as they were happening in the moment.
