Nimmo Are Literally Bursting To Show You Their New Music
Electro-pop-indiefive-pieceNimmo are the next Brand New For 2016 nominees we're putting in the spotlight this week. A band evolved since founding members Sarah and Reva met at school, the group'slimited releases (one EP and a few singles so far) have firmly caughtour attention, andthey've been busy beavering away in the studio and their "psyched" to be able to release it all this year. And so are we.
We sat down with Sarah and Reva to talk their sound, playing live and whatthe next 12 months holds in store...
"We started writing music together when we were about 16 years old," Sarah revealed."We used to listen to a lot of hip-hop, a lot of garage and a lot of grime as well which had the whole DIY culture behind it."
With their live set-up Reva explained: "The energy part has always been a thing that's captivated us, do you know what I mean? The energy always been such a key part of it for us and I think we've still got that in our live shows."
2015 was "great" for them. They released their first major label single 'Dilute This' and "did a couple of shows with Years & Years,in Ireland which was our first proper experience playing to bigger crowds and also younger crowds who are just mad for it," Sarah added."We've been pushed in every element this year."
"We were saying recently," Sarah continued,"whenever we've played a show, even just with an acoustic guitar we've wanted it to be louder and faster."
Reva added: "You actually said something once about 'Dilute This' how you have the song that you care so much about and then playing it live it's like you're just grabbing it by the shoulders, the song, and being like 'argh' [shakes fists].I think that's what a live set is, grabbing all those emotions by the shoulders and being able to throw yourself around."
"Playing live is like an emotional experience that you want to push onto your audience and bring them into that same world and that energy that we have when we go out and let whatever hair we have down," Sarah said.
"We're just so excited to actually show everybody all the music we've been recording and the live show that we've been building. We've just started putting it on the road and it's been the most amazing experience and I'm so psyched to be actually releasing all the material alongside playing it live. There's nothing else I really want from 2016."
To vote for Nimmo, tweet "#MTVBrandNew Nimmo", post a pic on Instagram with #MTVBrandNew Nimmo" in the description or comment the same on this Facebook post here.
By Michael Pell
'MTV Brand New For 2016 is presented by Emporio Armani Diamonds.'