Amber Run

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Amber Run
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Amber Run performing in 2018
Background information
Origin Nottingham, England
Genres
Years active2012–present
Labels RCA, Sony Music Entertainment
Members
  • Joshua Keogh
  • Tom Sperring
  • Henry Wyeth
Past members
  • Felix Archer
  • Will Jones
Website www.amber-run.com

Amber Run are a British indie rock band from Nottingham, composed of Joshua "Joe" Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Henry Wyeth. The band have released three full-length albums, three mini-albums, and five EPs. Initially called Amber, they later changed their name to avoid conflict with the German dance-pop singer of same name. [1]

Contents

History

Formation

Joshua Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Will Jones were originally friends from Buckinghamshire at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, where they played in an alternative rock band. With Felix Archer from the same area and Henry Wyeth from Kent, they met while studying at the University of Nottingham. [2] They all studied for degrees in humanities and law but abandoned their studies in the second year to focus on the band. [1] Keogh initially performed under his own name and started to get "a bit of momentum [so] we sat down and jammed out one day and there was something about it. It was so much better than what I was doing solo, so we started a band". [1]

Thanks to local BBC presenter Dean Jackson, the band featured on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival in 2013—only the fourth show the band had ever played. [3] Their presence attracted a number of A&R people to the show, and after a few weeks of negotiating, the band signed to RCA. [1]

2014–2015: Noah and debut album

On 14 February 2014, Amber Run released their first EP, Noah, which consisted of four songs. Two months later, after supporting Kodaline on their March 2014 tour, [4] they released their second EP, titled Spark, on 18 April 2014. [5] Their third EP, Pilot, was released on 19 September 2014. [6]

In March 2014, the band announced they had been recording their debut album throughout January and February, with Mike Crossey and Sam Winfield, "who's in many ways the sixth member of our band". [4]

In July and August 2014, the group released videos for the singles "I Found" and "Pilot", respectively. Speaking to LeftLion magazine in December 2014, they explained: "We were already discussing what to do with it [I Found]; it's not a song that screams "single" but we wanted to release it in some form. Releasing it with "Pilot" just seemed to be a good method to bring attention to the whole EP, and doing something creative with the videos is a bit more interesting. Linking the videos gives you more scope... [to] expand the storyline past three and a half minutes." [7]

On 1 December 2014, Amber Run announced the release of "Just My Soul Responding". The song was confirmed as the lead single from their upcoming debut album, in regards to which frontman Keogh said, "[the] album is done and we've signed it off. Now it's deciding the best time to get them out". [2] The video for "Just My Soul Responding" was uploaded on 18 December 2014, [8] and the single was released on 5 January 2015. [9]

The band's debut album, 5am , was issued on 20 April 2015. [10] Felix Archer departed the band in early 2016. On 15 April 2016, the band released a new single, "Haze". [11]

2016–2018: For a Moment, I Was Lost and The Assembly

In 2016, Amber Run released "Stranger" as the first single from their second album, For a Moment, I Was Lost. [12] A second single, titled "Perfect", came out in February 2017. [13] The album was published digitally on 10 February, with a physical release occurring on 17 March. [14] [15] Later, the band put out two singles, "The Weight" and "Heaven Is a Place", on 16 March 2018 and 13 April 2018, respectively. On 11 May 2018, The Assembly was released as an EP, containing the two aforementioned singles and another, titled "Amen", with a second rendition that featured London Contemporary Voices.

2019–present: Philophobia, unplugged EP, mini-album trilogy, and How to Be Human

Between November 2018 and September 2019, Amber Run released five singles—"Carousel", "Affection", "Neon Circus", "The Darkness Has a Voice", and "What Could Be as Lonely as Love"—preceding the release of their third album, Philiophobia, on 28 September 2019. On 26 June 2020, they issued an unplugged EP, featuring six songs from Philophobia. On 4 November 2021, they published a new mini-album, The Search (Act I), the first in a trilogy of mini-albums that would be released throughout the following year. The Start (Act II) came out on 3 June 2022. On 22 July, a new single, "Cradle" was put out, followed by "Funeral" on 2 September, concluding with the release of the third and final mini-album in the trilogy, The Hurt (Act III), on 2 November. Following this, Amber Run announced that their upcoming full-length album, How to Be Human, would come out in April 2023, with a coinciding UK tour running between 13 and 20 April 2023.[ citation needed ]

Band members

Current

Past

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positions
UK
[16]
5am 36
For a Moment, I Was Lost
  • Released: 10 February 2017
  • Label: Easy Life Records
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital download
49
Philophobia
  • Released: 27 September 2019
  • Label: Easy Life Records
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital download
How to Be Human
  • Released: 23 February 2023
  • Label: Tripel
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital download

EPs

TitleDetails
Noah
  • Released: 14 February 2014
  • Label: RCA, Sony Music Entertainment
  • Format: Digital download
Spark
  • Released: 18 April 2014
  • Label: RCA, Sony Music Entertainment
  • Format: Digital download
Pilot
  • Released: 19 September 2014
  • Label: RCA, Sony Music Entertainment
  • Format: Digital download
Acoustic EP
  • Released: 21 September 2017
  • Label: Easy Life Records
  • Format: Digital download
The Assembly
  • Released: 11 May 2018
  • Label: Easy Life Records
  • Format: CD, digital download

Singles

TitleYearCertificationsAlbum
"Noah"20135am
"Heaven"
"Spark"2014
"I Found"
"Just My Soul Responding"2015
"Haze" [11] 2016For a Moment, I Was Lost
"Stranger"
"No Answers"
"Fickle Game"2017
"Carousel"2018Philophobia
52 Blue2021

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