Sunflower Thieves - Already Taken

Amy Illingworth and Lily Sturt-Bolshaw are Leeds duo Sunflower Thieves, and their hauntingly beautiful new single “Already Taken” lands with the quiet force we’ve come to love from them. We first discovered the childhood friends four years ago with "Don't Mind The Weather" – and once again, they cast that unmistakable spell: pensive, mellow, and emotionally true.

About the track, Amy shares:

“We wrote this song with two of our closest friends, Sam Perry and Tom Hammond, while I was right in the midst of the feeling it describes. I’d also had to give up my first car for scrap a few months previously to the break up, which felt like another first love lost, and was so interconnected with that relationship. We got my brother Laurie to play piano across this track, which was recorded at home and is so special to us - it became such a huge part of how the song moves. He’s a huge part of the Sunflower Thieves family and one of the people who made the sadness I was feeling at the time, a lot lighter, which we feel he’s also done on the track.  Personally, the song feels comforting now, being so far away from the feelings it depicts, but to someone else, it might be just what they need as they’re going through something.”

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