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October 17, 2019

The Belle Sounds “Light It Up” [PREMIERE]

By: Jack Anderson

It’s been a surprisingly short amount of time since singer Noëlle Hampton and guitarist André Moran first met in San Francisco, became partners in marriage and songwriting, and moved to Austin as The Belle Sounds. And it’s just as impressive that in the five years since then they’ve become a treasured indie pop rock mainstay, to the point that the City of Austin has declared April 13th as “The Belle Sounds Day”.

Now equipped with some at-home digital production software and producer Danny Reisch (Shearwater, David Ramirez, Erika Wennerstrom), The Belle Sounds are venturing further into the pop realm, while still retaining the vivid soundscapes and infectious harmonies that made us fall in love with them in the first place. They’ll be dropping new singles periodically through next Spring, and their first single release party is 8:30pm tomorrow night at One-2-One Bar. Wanna hear it? So do we. For the first time ever, here’s “Light It Up”!


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