Scientists still don’t really know what an itch is, but for alt-pop duo The Itch, aka Simon Tyrie and Georgia Hardy, it’s how they describe making music: a compulsion, something akin to addiction. The pair met as teenagers a decade ago in Luton and have been collaborating musically ever since, but it was only after playing at a Talking Heads tribute night in 2023 that they decided to form The Itch. On their imminent debut album It’s The Hope That Kills You they apply an electroclash sweat and basement throb to the alienation and pessimism of the modern world, and describe themselves as “somewhere between pain and pleasure”.
Country: UK