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Tummyache is the alternative rock project of Amarillo, Texas singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Soren Bryce. The name change (she has released music under her given name) was a direct relation to her self exploration and how it manifested into her art, her music while living in Brooklyn, New York eventually resulting in her debut EP "Humpday", a series of self reflective songs couched in both her anxiety and her view of the absurdity of the human condition, of life itself.
The track Machine with it's bright yet punchy guitar strains feels noise rockish with post punk driving tom tom beats and Bryce's equally bright yet punchy vox. The chorus bumps up the emotional drive with big walls of sound, more driving guitars, a formidable bottom edge and layers of vocals. Impressively cool, catchy and, yes, full of reflective surfaces.
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
tummyache is An Alternative Rock Project created by Songwriter / producer soren bryce. The project is named after one of the side effects of severe physical anxiety. Bryce has been creating and releasing music for the past six years Under her own name. Tummyache manifested from Bryce’s need to explore a new set of emotions She experienced while living in brooklyn, new york.
the debut ep “humpday” is an honest and aggressive self-dive into a myriad of Intra/interpersonal issues; as well as a reflection of the human condition through the lens of absurdism. Songs like “machine” and “commonplace” are a cry to understand a life without intrinsic meaning, while “median” and title track “humpday” surrender to the existential anxiety in an attempt to be comforted by self-made hope. “in between” is a bitter-sweet outline of Bryce seeking to simply ‘feel better’.
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