Working Out

Arthur Beatrice founding members Orlando Leopard (vocals/instruments) and Elliot Barnes (drums) discovered early in their school-formed friendship, and musical partnership, that their opposing views would take them in interesting and often unpredictable directions. The pair were looking to introduce a new dynamic to their songwriting when they met and enlisted Ella Girardot (vocals/keys), after hearing her perform UK group All Saints' 'Pure Shores' in the school talent contest. Brother Hamish Barnes (vocals/bass/guitar) joined a little later, quickly providing another point of creative tension when he began contributing songs that soon became as vital as anything before. Ella refers to these lyrics as being 'Ambiguous...', and they may seem as such, especially when paired with seemingly unrelated titles. Each song name is in fact intended to encourage the listener to reconsider the words on realization that the title words are always absent. '...It's meant to be a 'rupture' of sorts - that thing that makes you realize that something isn't quite right, and you have to look at the whole song again to work out why it has its name.