Soup Review are what happens when South Yorkshire meets South Coast, when folk tradition meets anti-folk self-deprecation. Chris Delamere is the son of a morris dancer. Mario D’Agostino arrived in Sheffield from Weymouth, via art college, with a love of anti-folk and a collection of recipes from their family restaurant. Together they write thoughtfully silly songs about friendship, food and exploring the world.
Soup Review's new album 'Sleeping Light' is a collection of songs about restlessness, yearning and being very tired. It's about wanting to go out and wanting to stay in. About setting off fireworks and going to bed. It's about letting the colours dance in front of your drooping eyelids.
They brought their distinctive songwriting to 2018 debut album, From the Bed to the Settee (and Back Again) – a scrapbook tinged with parody and pastiche and populated by flying ants, sandwiches and fictional monks.
On 2020's 'Beneath The Big White Moon' they continued to tell their stories in a way that was both hilarious and heartbreaking. They elevate the everyday and the banal through their lyrics, negotiating awkward family occasions, drunken nights out, father and son relationships, family history and dodgy landlords.
Their 3rd album, 'Go and See' produced by Zac 'Sun Drift' Barfoot for Bingo Records, was an album woven through with the tracks of foxes, the new leaves of old trees and odes to friendships lost and re-found. And a song about panicking about hot sauce.
