The Belle Sounds’s Black Stone Surfaces

The Belle Sounds New EP Black Stone Out Now

The Belle Sounds, are back with a new EP Black Stone, out now. Wondering Sound says it’s both “beautiful and beguiling” and that a “sense of mystery and kismet runs through their music.” And The Alternate Root calls album a “Roots dream world.” While Lee Zimmerman boasts, “The follow-up to a sensational debut, the new Black Stone EP suggests that the excellence evidenced in that initial outing was no fluke.”

While frontrunner and co-creator of the band, Noëlle HamptonThe Belle Sounds, are back with a new EP Black Stone, out now. Wondering Sound says it’s both “beautiful and beguiling” and that a “sense of mystery and kismet runs through their music.” And The Alternate Root calls album a “Roots dream world.” While Lee Zimmerman boasts, “The follow-up to a sensational debut, the new Black Stone EP suggests that the excellence evidenced in that initial outing was no fluke.”, is typically the chief songwriter, the fresh collaboration with band members on Black Stone provided her with a chance to expand The Belle Sounds creative consciousness. The EP’s first single, “The Siren”, which was the bands first song written together, is influenced by the classic novel “Fahrenheit 451” and acts as a warning against allowing technology and noise to control our lives and keeping us from finding peace. The upbeat song “Golden Boy”, inspired by the hit show “Dexter”, has dark lyrical undertones accompanied by spooky synth to give it an ominous feeling. Remaining on the EP is a slew of songs, each one dynamic and memorable, rich with harmonic bliss, taking listeners on a journey they are bound to love.